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Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen
Leeds Baroque Choir & Orchestra is a period instrument performance group directed by Peter Holman
Add to my Calendar 10-06-2018 15:00 10-06-2018 17:00 36 Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen William Shakespeare and Henry Purcell: the perfect companions for a summer’s afternoon. The Fairy Queen is an extravagant operatic adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, first put on with Purcell’s music in 1692. There are lots of additional elements to Shakespeare’s dreaming, including a scene of drunken poets tormented by the fairies (satirizing Purcell’s stuttering friend Thomas D’Urfey), an evocative nocturnal masque in which Night, Mystery, Secrecy and Sleep appear to entertain Titania, a grand Masque of the Four Seasons, and a final wedding masque set, for no particular reason, in China.Leeds Baroque’s performance of Purcell’s wonderful score is linked by a specially devised narration by Richard Andrews conveying the essence of play as adapted for Restoration taste. Fun for all the family. Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
The School of Music
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
England
Programme
Henry Purcell – The Fairy Queen, Z.629
Performers
Leeds Baroque Choir and Orchestra
Programme Note
William Shakespeare and Henry Purcell: the perfect companions for a summer’s afternoon. The Fairy Queen is an extravagant operatic adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, first put on with Purcell’s music in 1692. There are lots of additional elements to Shakespeare’s dreaming, including a scene of drunken poets tormented by the fairies (satirizing Purcell’s stuttering friend Thomas D’Urfey), an evocative nocturnal masque in which Night, Mystery, Secrecy and Sleep appear to entertain Titania, a grand Masque of the Four Seasons, and a final wedding masque set, for no particular reason, in China.
Leeds Baroque’s performance of Purcell’s wonderful score is linked by a specially devised narration by Richard Andrews conveying the essence of play as adapted for Restoration taste. Fun for all the family.
