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unusual facts about Venus and Adonis



Catherine Bott

She has recorded extensively, for example as Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music in 1994), with the choir of King's College, Cambridge conducted by Stephen Cleobury in Bach's St. John Passion, as Venus in John Blow’s Venus and Adonis with Philip Pickett, and in Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea with Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Iraj Mirza

Among many poems that Iraj composed, his well-known poems include Satan (in Persian: Ebleess), Mother (in Persian: Maadar), A Letter to a Poet Aref Ghazvini (in Persian: Arefnameh), Woman's Picture (in Persian: Tassvir-e-Zan), Story of the Veil or Hijab (in Persian: hejab) and the Story of Zohreh and Manouchehr (in Persian: Daastan-e-Zohreh-o-Manouchehr), which is based on William Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis.

The Rape of Lucrece

In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in which he promised to write a "graver work".


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Glenn Kesby

Other opera roles have included Silvio in Handel's Il Pastor Fido (Harmonie Universelle), Cupid in John Blow's Venus and Adonis, Spirit in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (Burghley Opera), Tolomeo in Julius Caesar, Arsamenes in Xerxes, Polinesso in Ariodante, and Venus in Pepusch's Venus and Adonis for the Handel House Museum.

Johann Heinrich Roos

Among biblical, historical and genre scenes, Roos preferred subjects involving animals: the shepherds of the nativity, Venus and Adonis.