Dido and Aeneas is a Baroque opera by Henry Purcell, often cited as an exemplar of early English opera and its fusion of tragedy and myth. The title-speaker refers to the Carthaginian queen Dido and the Trojan hero Aeneas; the phrase is commonly used to denote the work itself or the characters. In pronunciation contexts, it is treated as a proper noun phrase with attention to especially the internal space and capitalized names.
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