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Proms 2024
6 Aug 2024, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2024 Prom 24: Purcell’s The Fairy Queen

Prom 24
Prom 24: Purcell’s The Fairy Queen
19:00 Tue 6 Aug 2024 Royal Albert Hall
Mourad Merzouki’s critically acclaimed staging of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen – based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – comes to the Proms, featuring soloists from Le Jardin des Voix and dancers from Merzouki’s troupe
Mourad Merzouki’s critically acclaimed staging of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen – based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – comes to the Proms, featuring soloists from Le Jardin des Voix and dancers from Merzouki’s troupe

Programme

      • The Fairy Queen(102 mins)(semi-staged; sung and spoken in English, with English surtitles)

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About This Event

After critically acclaimed runs in New York, Paris and around the world, Mourad Merzouki’s staging of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen comes to the Proms. Expression and spontaneity characterise both Merzouki’s hip hop-derived dance, Paul Agnew’s musical direction and Purcell’s 1692 composition, a series of allegorical celebrations of young love based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (For two other major musical responses to the play, see Proms 36 & 68.) Goblins and elves meet street dance as Paul Agnew makes his Proms conducting debut and soloists from Le Jardin des Voix (the vocal academy run by Les Arts Florissants) and dancers from Merzouki’s troupe combine in this moving and imaginative meeting of genres.

There will be one interval

Image from November 2023 performance at Lincoln Center © Lawrence Sumulong

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Proms 2024