Purcell: The Fairy Queen

Name: Purcell: The Fairy Queen
Released: 2009-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 8
Cast: Lucy Crowe, Carolyn Sampson, Ed Lyon, Andrew Foster-Williams, Desmond Barrit

Jonathan Kent's spectacular production of Purcell's huge semi-opera is joyous, imaginative and witty. Glyndebourne, with its intimate auditorium, provides the perfect setting for the drama which is partly spoken and partly sun. Based on an adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream,