Students from the Mannes School of Music and the School of Drama presented selections from Henry Purcell’s baroque semi-opera Fairy Queen, loosely based on William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s ...

LENOX — Opera takes over the Tanglewood grounds this week, with a mighty snippet from the genre’s most famous epic and a contemporary take on a baroque spectacular. On July 18, Les Arts Florissants, a ...

Jonathan Kent's spectacular production of Purcell's huge semi-opera is joyous, imaginative and witty. Glyndebourne, with its intimate auditorium, provides the perfect setting for the drama which is ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Henry Purcell’s life was short. He died in 1695, two months after his ...

Las Vegas and the Baroque met in the recently restored 20th-century Studebaker Theater, home to a wildly entertaining adaptation of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen by the Chicago Opera Theater (COT).

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 ...

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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 ...

As with several other of Purcell’s stage works, it’s hard to define exactly what The Fairy Queen is. Not opera: it was intended to be performed within Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ...

Lincoln Center will present about 60 performances from September through late February, including the U.S. premiere of Les Arts Florissants’ new staging of Purcell’s "The Fairy Queen" and Turtle ...

A regular visitor to the BBC Proms for some years now, Glyndebourne Opera has had some great successes transferring product from its Sussex base. Last year’s Coronation of Poppaea and, before that, ...