Performance

Venue	Royal Albert Hall
	Also: Elgar Room
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	6th August 2024
To	6th August 2024
When	19:00
Royal Albert Hall (V221)
Current/Future Listings
Listings Archive

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Date of change: 17 May 24 - T0355880831

Prom 24 - Purcell's The Fairy Queen

Work:: Prom 24 (S349)

Part of the BBC Proms.

Production:: Purcell's The Fairy Queen (T0355880831)

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. 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 an interval.

Performer	Pauline Francisco (soprano)
Performer	Georgia Burashko (mezzo-soprano)
Performer	Rebecca Leggett (mezzo soprano)
Performer	Juliette Mey (mezzo-soprano)
Performer	Rodrigo Carreto (tenor)
Performer	Ilja Aksionov (tenor)
Performer	Hugo Herman-Wilson (baritone)
Performer	Benjamin Schilperoort (bass-baritone)
Company	Compagnie Kafig
Company	Les Arts Florissants
Conductor	Paul Agnew
Director	Mourad Merzouki (and choreographer)

Listing:: L0782548352

Purcell's The Fairy Queen

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. 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 an interval.

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