Live at the 麻豆社 Proms: Paul Agnew conducts Les Arts Florissants in Purcell鈥檚 The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare鈥檚 A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream.
Live at the 麻豆社 Proms: Paul Agnew conducts Les Arts Florissants in Purcell鈥檚 The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare鈥檚 A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream.
Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Purcell: The Fairy Queen
Paulina Francisco (soprano)
Georgia Burashko (mezzo-soprano)
Rebecca Leggett (mezzo-soprano)
Juliette Mey (mezzo-soprano)
Rodrigo Carreto (tenor)
Ilja Aksionov (tenor)
Hugo Herman-Wilson (baritone)
Benjamin Schilperoort (bass-baritone)
Samuel Florimond, Anahi Passi, Alary-Youra Ravin, Timoth茅e Zig, Baptiste Coppin, Daniel Saad (dancers)
Compagnie K脛FIG
Les Arts Florissants
Paul Agnew (conductor)
Mourad Merzouki (choreographer/stage director)
After critically acclaimed runs in New York, Paris and around the world, Mourad Merzouki鈥檚 staging of Purcell鈥檚 The Fairy Queen comes to the Proms. Expression and spontaneity characterise both Merzouki鈥檚 hip hop-derived dance, Paul Agnew鈥檚 musical direction and Purcell鈥檚 1692 composition, a series of allegorical celebrations of young love based on Shakespeare鈥檚 A Midsummer Night鈥檚 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鈥檚 troupe combine in this moving and imaginative meeting of genres.
There will be one interval: Professor Nandini Das won the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for her study of the Indian Mughal Court. She鈥檚 also an expert in Early Modern England and joins Andrew McGregor to discuss Shakespeare, and the tradition of masque dramas which Purcell鈥檚 Fairy Queen draws upon.
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The Fairy Queen - Opera Z.629
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Henry Purcell
The Fairy Queen - Opera Z.629
Performer: Paulina Francisco. Performer: Georgia Burashko. Performer: Rebecca Leggett. Performer: Juliette Mey. Performer: Rodrigo Carreto. Performer: Ilja Aksionov. Performer: Hugo Herman-Wilson. Performer: Benjamin Schilperoort. Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: Paul Agnew. -
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