Dido and Aeneas conclusion, as the Queen of Carthage sings her last aria, "When I am laid in Earth", also known as "Dido's Lament." The chorus and orchestra then conclude the opera once Dido is dead by ordering the "cupids to scatter roses on her tomb, soft and gentle as her heart. Keep here your watch, and never, never part." The first complete recording of the opera was made by Decca Records in 1935 with Nancy Evans as Dido and Roy Henderson as Aeneas, followed in 1945 by HMV's release with Joan Hammond and Dennis Noble. Kirsten Flagstad, who had sung the role
Ripheus make him survive to found the ancient Gauls and Franks). Ripheus Ripheus (also Rifeo and Rupheo) was a Trojan hero and the name of a figure from the "Aeneid" of Virgil. A comrade of Aeneas, he was a Trojan who was killed defending his city against the Greeks. "Ripheus also fell," Virgil writes, "uniquely the most just of all the Trojans, the most faithful preserver of equity; but the gods decided otherwise" (Virgil, "Aeneid" II, 426–8). Ripheus's righteousness was not rewarded by the gods. In his "Divine Comedy", Dante placed Ripheus in Heaven, in the sixth sphere of Jupiter, the