With Purcell’s music for the latter valued above its rhyming-couplet dialogue, it’s rare to see the work today except in purely musical form. Purcell’s cast of rustics, gods and spirits can be ...

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 ...

Hugo Herman-Wilson and Ilja Aksionov in "Now the maids and the men are making of hay" in "The Fairy Queen" at Tanglewood. Rebecca Leggett performs "I am come to lock all fast" with dancer Timothée Zig ...

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, ...

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