Purcell - Fairy Queen 1692 AEC Video and folk song and dances

and folk song and dances

to disobey and to reorganize horror

Some of the most affective moments of the work occur in these chorales as well as in the arias

and the result is an intoxicating collection all about coming into our truest selves

Purcell - Fairy Queen 1692 AEC Video and folk song and dancesPurcell's The Fairy Queen is based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, a play not frequently performed in the late 17th century, nor very well regarded ("the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life" Samuel Pepys' diary, 1662). Despite this, the play would go on to work well within an opera, as the characters of Pyramus and Thisbe could conjure up singing and dancing accomplices. Purcell's masterful composition, Gabrieli's first