With Purcell’s music for the latter valued above its rhyming-couplet dialogue, it’s rare to see the work today except in purely musical form. Purcell’s cast of rustics, gods and spirits can be ...

‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’ so the saying goes. A parallel, albeit more positive, phrase might be applied to Polly Graham’s new production of The Fairy Queen for Longborough Festival ...

LENOX — Opera takes over the Tanglewood grounds this week, with a mighty snippet from the genre’s most famous epic and a contemporary take on a baroque spectacular. On July 18, Les Arts Florissants, a ...

Experience this uniquely distilled rendering of John Adams's monumental Christmas oratorio El Niño, specially arranged for American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) and set in The Met Cloisters as part of ...

LENOX — In Henry Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen,” writes Le Jardin des Voix co-director Paul Agnew, “the night descends and the magic commences.” As night fell on Ozawa Hall, a spirited, inventive ...

Hugo Herman-Wilson and Ilja Aksionov in "Now the maids and the men are making of hay" in "The Fairy Queen" at Tanglewood. Rebecca Leggett performs "I am come to lock all fast" with dancer Timothée Zig ...

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 ...

I didn’t take an umbrella along to the Coliseum, often a disastrous mistake in view of the current laughable attempt at summer weather offered to inhabitants of London town. I needn’t have worried, ...

The dancing was simply stunning; the singing consistently fine; the orchestral playing fresh, bold and flavourful – and the integration of all performers into a single company in which vocalists ...