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Pop goes Purcell: Les Arts Florissants serve up an intoxicating Baroque–Hip-Hop cocktail

Emmanuel Resche-Caserta and Rebecca Legett
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Compagnie Käfig in The Fairy Queen
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“as boisterous and engaging a spectacle as one imagines Restoration spectaculars would have been”
Reviewed at The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall, Toronto on 11 July 2024
Purcell, The Fairy Queen
Compagnie Käfig
William Christie, Conductor
Mourad Merzouki, Director, Choreography
Claire Schirck, Costume Designer
Fabrice Sarcy, Lighting Designer
Académie du Jardin des Voix
Paulina Francisco, Soprano
Georgia Burashko, Mezzo-soprano
Rebecca Leggett, Soprano
Juliette Mey, Mezzo-soprano
Ilja Aksionov, Tenor
Rodrigo Carreto, Tenor
Hugo Herman-Wilson, Baritone
Benjamin Schilperoort, Bass-baritone
Compagnie Käfig's Boxe Boxe
*****
Ébouriffantes Quatre Saisons de Julien Chauvin et Mourad Merzouki
*****
Excelentes Les Arts Florissants y Le Jardin des Voix en el CNDM
****1
HIP und Hip ist hip: Les Arts Florissants mit PurcellsThe Fairy Queen
*****
Compagnie Käfig's Boxe Boxe
*****
Ébouriffantes Quatre Saisons de Julien Chauvin et Mourad Merzouki
*****
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