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Henry Purcell, The Fairy Queen

First Musick: Prelude

First Musick: Hornpipe

Second Musick: Air

Second Musick: Rondeau

I: Overture

I: "Come, come let us leave the town"

I: Scene of the Drunken Poet: "Fill up the bowl"

I: First Act Tune: Jig

II: "Come all ye songsters of the sky"

II: Prelude

II: "May the God of Wit inspire"

II: Echo

II: "Now join your Warbling Voices all"

II: "Sing while we trip"

II: "See, even Night herself is here"

II: "I am come to lock all fast"

II: "Hush, no more"

II: Second Act Tune: Air

III: "If love's a sweet passion"

III: Dance of the Green Men

III: "Ye gentle spirits of the Air"

III: Coridon and Mospa Dialogue: "Now the maids and the men"

III: "When I Have often heard"

III: "A thousand, thousand several ways"

IV: Symphony

IV: "Now the night is chased away"

IV: "Let the fifes, and the clarions"

IV: Entry of Phoebus

IV: "When a cruel long winter"

IV: "Hail! Great Parent"

IV: "Thus the ever Grateful spring"

IV: "Here's the summer"

IV: "See my many colour'd fields"

IV: "Next winter comes slowly"

IV: "Hail! Great Parent"

IV: Fourth Act Tune: Air

V: Epithalamium: "Thrice happy lovers"

V: The Plaint: "Oh let me weep"

V: Entry Dance

V: "Thus the gloomy world"

V: "Thus Happy and free"

V: "Yes, Daphne"

V: Monkey's dance

V: "Hark! Now the echoing air"

V: "Sure the dull God of marriage"

V: Prelude

V: "See, see, I obey"

V: "Turn then thine eyes"

V: "My torch, indeed"

V: "They shall be as happy as they're fair"

V: Chaconne: "Dance for a Chinese Man and Woman"

Purcell's The Fairy Queen

Jonathan Kent (stage director), William Christie (conductor) – With Lucy Crowe, Ed Lyon, Adrian Ward...

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Cast

Jonathan Kent — Stage director

Paul Brown — Set designer

Mark Henderson — Lighting

Kim Brandstrup — Choreographer

Singers:

Lucy Crowe — Soprano

Claire Debono — Soprano

Program notes

" There are too many highlights to mention in this varied and infinitely delightful entertainment. Glyndebourne has a triumph on its hands. "
The Stage

Jonathan Kent's spectacular production of Purcell's huge semi-opera is joyous, imaginative and witty. Glyndebourne, with its intimate auditorium, provides the perfect setting for a drama which is partly spoken and partly sung.

Based on an adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the story is lavished with a brilliance that justifies this production's acclaim. Paul Brown's inventive designs, Kim Brandstrup's exquisite choreography, an excellent cast of actors and singers and outstanding playing by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under William Christie combine to make a seamless theatrical experience, here recorded in High Definition and true surround sound.

© Picture: Alastair Muir

  • To watch the behind the scenes in Glyndebourne with interviews of Jonathan Kent and William Christie: click here !

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