In perhaps the most famous English opera, Dido tells the story of the Queen of Carthage and her love for Aeneas. Purcell's opera includes the sublime lament, Dido's 'When I Am Laid in Earth'.
Sheet music
(- From Love's Goddess Sure Was Blind - 3-pt Mixed, accompanied - - - HENRY PURCELL - BRILEE DIV -CARL FISCHER - PATRICK M. LIEBERGEN, Jan. 1, 2000)