Madness, magic and music abound in Opera Theater of Yale College’s production of “The Fairy Queen” — an operatic adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” “The Fairy ...

Ben Jonson’s ironic lines sum up this gloriously absurd yet moving production of Purcell’s ‘semi-opera,’ revived from the 2009 ‘entertainment’ with even more emphasis on ‘exotick’ theatrical shocks ...

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Renowned opera director David Pountney delivers a superlative production in this 1995 staging of British composer Henry Purcells The Fairy Queen featuring Yvonne Kenny at Titania Simon Rice as Puck ...