Name: The Fairy Queen
Start: 2024-06-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-06-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Snape Maltings Concert Hall

Organization

Admin

Conductor

Lionel Meunier

Set designer

Emilie Lauwers

Stage director

Video designer

Mário Melo Costa

Lighting designer

David Carney

Dramaturge

Isaline Claeys

Concertgebouw Brugge

Benoît De Leersnijder

Others

Vox Luminis

Text

Simon Robson

Aldeburgh Festival

The Fairy Queen -  (The Fairy-Queen)

Snape

United Kingdom

Snape Maltings Concert Hall

Concert Hall

The Fairy Queen

Public

Private

The Fairy-Queen

Paul Koneri

Approved

The Fairy Queen Purcell

The first UK performance of Vox Luminis’ bold, entrancing concert staging of Purcell’s Baroque masterpiece.

Henry Purcell was a profound and lifelong inspiration for both Britten and Pears, and his semi-opera The Fairy-Queen, a “Restoration spectacular”, was first staged at the Aldeburgh Festival to mark the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977. An anonymous reworking of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it is a work of tremendous elegance, colour and drama. The score was lost for over 200 years and only re-emerged early in the 20th century.

We are delighted to welcome back Vox Luminis for this special occasion in their 20th-anniversary year. This production was described in Paris as “a must-see event in the world of Baroque music” thanks to “Emilie Lauwers’ bold concept and staging, Mário Melo Costa's stunning visuals, David Carney’s hypnotic lighting, and Isaline Claeys & Simon Robson’s dramaturgy” (sortiraparis.com).

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