Dido, Queen of Carthage (opera) Dido, Queen of Carthage (opera) Dido, Queen of Carthage was an opera in three acts by Stephen Storace. Its English libretto by Prince Hoare was adapted from Metastasio's 1724 libretto, "Didone abbandonata" ("Dido Abandoned"), which had been set by many composers. Storace's opera premiered on 23 May 1792 at The King's Theatre in London combined with a performance of his masque, "Neptune's Prophecy". The story is based on that of Dido and Aeneas in the fourth book of Virgil's "Aeneid". The opera was not a success and was never revived after its original run of performances. The score has been
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