Event listing: The Fairy Queen | Harrogate Theatre | Thu 3 Nov 2011 at 19:30

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Harrogate Theatre6 Oxford Street, Town Centre, Harrogate, Yorkshire and the Humber, HG1 1QF, United Kingdom

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Performers

English Touring Opera
Joseph McHardy	Conductor
Thomas Guthrie	Director
Louise Alder	Soprano
Michał Czerniawski	Countertenor
Anthony Gregory	Tenor
Nina Lejderman	Soprano
Lina Markeby	Mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Merryweather	Baritone
Aidan Smith	Baritone
Mark Wilde	Tenor

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About a work: Paul Agnew on Purcell’s Fairy Queen

Bachtrack, 5th September

Les Arts Florissants’ new production combines choreography from Mourad Merzouki with the vocal ensemble Les Jardins des Voix, turning Purcell’s fantastical work into a sung ballet.

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Munich, Germany

English Touring Opera: The Fairy Queen goes to Bedlam

Jane Shuttleworth, 3rd November

Purcell’s The Fairy Queen is a tricky thing to stage. It’s not an opera, with its own story-line, but a masque, a series of musical interludes intended to slot into a performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. One solution could be just to perform it in concert, but the music is so dramatic that it lends itself wonderfully to stage action.

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