LENOX — In Henry Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen,” writes Le Jardin des Voix co-director Paul Agnew, “the night descends and the magic commences.” As night fell on Ozawa Hall, a spirited, inventive ...
The Fairy Queen was a Restoration spectacular of 1692 whose production design – elaborate costumes, a working fountain, live monkeys – was so over-the-top it almost bankrupted the theatre. As ...
With Purcell’s music for the latter valued above its rhyming-couplet dialogue, it’s rare to see the work today except in purely musical form. Purcell’s cast of rustics, gods and spirits can be ...
After two years of remote opera work, the UC Santa Cruz Music Department presents Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen in a very special outdoor production to celebrate the return of fully-staged, live ...
After critically acclaimed runs in New York, Paris and around the world, Mourad Merzouki’s staging of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen comes to the Proms. Expression and spontaneity characterise both Mourad ...
The mysterious Fairy Queen has made an appearance and promises to reveal a wonderful secret on one condition -- you must guess her name.