Tag Archives: Henry Purcell

MASQUE OF MIGHT – OPERA NORTH – Oct 14th 2023

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something… green? In Masque of Might the heavenly, seventeenth century baroque music of Henry Purcell is married with a hellish, surreal (yet horribly ...

andrew 499 views 0 likes Oct 17, 2023

Robert Tanitch reviews Glyndebourne’s The Fairy Queen on line

Henry Purcell (1639-1693) wrote one true opera, Dido and Aeneas and a number of semi-operas, including The Fairy Queen, which premiered at the Dorset Theatre, London, in 1692. The score was lost after ...

andrew 1488 views 0 likes Aug 26, 2020