As an opera composer, Henry Purcell is best known for a single piece: the drama Dido and Aeneas, which dates from around the 1680s. Strictly speaking, it's the only opera Purcell ever wrote. In ...

Students from the Mannes School of Music and the School of Drama presented selections from Henry Purcell’s baroque semi-opera Fairy Queen, loosely based on William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s ...

Edinburgh Studio Opera’s production of The Fairy Queen, at the Pleasance until Thursday, takes on the many challenges of Henry Purcell’s much-adapted augmentation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A production featuring graduates of Le Jardin des Voix, run by Les Arts Florissants, with choreography by Mourad Merzouki, comes to Lincoln Center on ...

LENOX — Opera takes over the Tanglewood grounds this week, with a mighty snippet from the genre’s most famous epic and a contemporary take on a baroque spectacular. On July 18, Les Arts Florissants, a ...

Las Vegas and the Baroque met in the recently restored 20th-century Studebaker Theater, home to a wildly entertaining adaptation of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen by the Chicago Opera Theater (COT).

Pinchgut pulls out all the stops for slick and elegant take on Purcell’s The Fairy Queen. Helmed by cutting edge English director and video designer Netia Jones, the company has moved temporarily from ...