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Purcell's Fairy Queen, New London Consort, Philip Pickett, QEH

Purcell's Fairy Queen, New London Consort, Philip Pickett, QEH

Date: 
Friday, 11 February, 2011 - 19:30
Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen New London Consort Philip Pickett conductor Mauricio Garcia Lozano director Isobel Dunhill costume designer, set designer Ace McCarron lighting designer Joanne Lunn soprano Christopher Robson counter-tenor Ed Lyon tenor Michael George bass-baritone Dana Marbach soprano Faye Newton soprano Timothy Travers-Brown counter-tenor Joseph Cornwell tenor Simon Grant bass-baritone Artists from Circus Space London Philip Pickett's iconoclastic approach, brilliant circus artists, star solo singers and mesmeric staging by brilliant Mexican director Mauricio García Lozano combine to convey all the fantasy and inextinguishable energy of Purcell's magical score. With a cast of Lovers, a Drunken Poet, Night, Mystery, Secrecy, Juno, Phoebus, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Hymen. Queen Elizabeth Hall at 6.15pm - The Fairy Queen Transform'd. Philip Pickett and Mauricio García Lozano talk about their new version of Purcell's score. Admission free.