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Henry's Girls
Alan Stafford's reconstruction of the first performance of an English opera, Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, at a girls' boarding school in Chelsea in 1689.
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Tue 15 May 200714:15
BBC Radio 4

Alan Stafford's reconstruction of the first performance of an English opera, Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, at a girls' boarding school in Chelsea in 1689.