Name: Prom 24: Purcell’s The Fairy Queen
Start: 2024-08-06
End: 2024-08-06
Location: Royal Albert Hall

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Les Arts Florissants

Ballet

Compagnie Käfig

Conductor

Paul Agnew

Orchestra

Musiciens des Arts Florissants

Singer

Paulina Francisco

Soprano

Georgia Burashko

Mezzo-soprano

Rebecca Leggett

Juliette Mey

Rodrigo Carreto

Tenor

Ilja Aksionov

Hugo Herman-Wilson

Bass-Baritone

Benjamin Schilperoort

Stage director

Mourad Merzouki

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Prom 24: Purcell’s The Fairy Queen

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

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The Fairy-Queen

Paul Koneri

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About This Event
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 Merzouki’s hip hop-derived dance and Purcell’s musical score from 1692, a series of allegorical celebrations of young love based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (For two other major musical responses to the play, see Proms 36 & 68.) Goblins and elves meet street dance as soloists from Le Jardin des Voix (the vocal academy run by Les Arts Florissants) and dancers from Merzouki’s troupe combine in this moving and imaginative meeting of genres.

There will be one interval

Prom 24: Purcell’s The Fairy Queen by Purcell, Tue 06 Aug 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Mourad Merzouki,, Conductor Paul Agnew, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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