<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/westmont-news/westmont-stages-rare-classic-opera-duet.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>01/13/2016</pubDate><title>Westmont Stages Rare Classic Opera Duet</title><excerpt>Westmont’s music and theater departments collaborate to stage two rarely seen classics in an ambitious, one-of-a-kind, dramatic operatic event Jan. 28-30 and Feb. 4-6 at Westmont’s Porter Theatre. Westmont will pair “Dido and Aeneas” (1688), composed by Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate, with Christopher Marlowe’s “Dido, Queen of Carthage” (published 1594).</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
            <img src="/_migrated-binaries/sites/default/files/blogs-legacy/2016/01/Dido-Project-Poster-header-type-505x774.jpg" alt="Poster by Scott Anderson"/>
        </image><caption>Poster by Scott Anderson</caption><description>1 Column Content Background Color White Heading...</description></item>