Dido, Queen of Carthage
The Italian poet Pietro Metastasio also used Virgil's story for a libretto (the story and words for an opera). It was called . (Its title means Dido Abandoned in Italian.) The first opera to use Metastasio's libretto was composed by Domenico Sarro in 1724. In the next 100 years more than 40 operas by other composers used this libretto.