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I’ve had the Fairy Queens on my mind a lot recently – probably not surprising since I just finished writing a book about them. But usually I write a book and life goes on, I move on the next; this ...

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. Many ...

The Fairy Queen was a Restoration spectacular of 1692 whose production design – elaborate costumes, a working fountain, live monkeys – was so over-the-top it almost bankrupted the theatre. As ...

After two years of remote opera work, the UC Santa Cruz Music Department presents Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen in a very special outdoor production to celebrate the return of fully-staged, live ...

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 Mourad ...

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 ...

The mysterious Fairy Queen has made an appearance and promises to reveal a wonderful secret on one condition -- you must guess her name.