The Fairy-Queen by Purcell, þri 16 des 2008, Frá (2008/2009), Leikstýrt af Wouter Van Looy, Hljómsveitarstjóri Emmanuelle Haïm, Opéra, Lille, France

This musical theatrical puzzle is a collaboration between la Clef des Chants, Opéra de Lille and Muziektheater Transparant. Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Le Concert d'Astrée. A forest for lost loved ones, lost in themselves and swallowed by the surreal. The Fairy Queen is one of the countless works that Henry Purcell wrote for theater. Like so many works from that time, it is an adaptation of an earlier written play, in this case Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream, adapted to the zeitgeist . The famous comedy is mainly set in a forest ruled by Oberon and Titania. Four young lovers wander in a dreamlike atmosphere. Searching for each other or themselves, confused by the desire that drives them, overwhelmed by the lust and plaything of Puck, Oberon's servant. Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream was transformed into The Fairy Queen in the 17th century: a spectacle in which songs and dances were added and all the registers of the theater were pulled out. The Flemish director Wouter Van Looy stages (After) The Fairy Queen . His approach creates an aesthetic that intertwines visual impressions, fleeting and, like the characters, absorbed in the surreal. He invites the young Belgian artist Freija Van Esbroeck for this: she arms the allegorical characters who populate the story with costumes, masks and animal prostheses of an astonishing poetry. Emanuelle Haïm conducts her vocal and instrumental ensemble Le Concert d'Astrée.