Purcell: The Fairy Queen

8.0 / 10

(2 votes)

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 partly spoken and partly sun. Based on an adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream,

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2009

Cast:
Lucy Crowe

Carolyn Sampson

Ed Lyon

Andrew Foster-Williams

Desmond Barrit

Crew:
Henry Purcell

Music

William Christie

Conductor

Jonathan Kent

Stage Director