The Fairy Queen
Author(s):
Henry Purcell
Running time:
4h 15min approx
The Fairy Queen was composed to fit between acts of Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, musically expressing the play’s themes of nature, transformation, love and magic.
This new production will use the dramatic framework from Shakespeare’s text: combining words and music to present Purcell’s score. A newly commissioned genre-bending arrangement will blend Baroque with folk music, co-music directed by baroque violinist and composer Naomi Burrell and composer and conductor Harry Sever.
Longborough’s Artistic Director Polly Graham will direct.
