Details

A 'semi-opera' featuring an exchange of music and spoken dialogue, was the result of a collaboration in 1691 with the poet and dramatist John Dryden. The storyline avoids familiar Arthurian legend, and focuses more on the live triangle of a blind Cornish princess, King Arthur and Oswald, Saxon King of Kent. Amongst all this, Purcell's music, brimming with French-inspired dance movements, is always brilliantly descriptive and entertaining. Concert performance

Creatives/Company

Music: Purcell
Lyrics: Dryden
Company(s): Singers from the Britten-Pears Yount Artist Programme, Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra
Director: Laurence Cummings

King Arthur

King Arthur (Opera or Operetta) production archive for QTIX code T1639363200. Details of all King Arthur archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S799683802

Archive Listings

10 Aug 06

Snape Maltings Concert Hall
Aldeburgh, Suffolk
Performance Details => Venue archive

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