The Fairy Queen
From: Friday, 20th July 2012
To: Sunday, 26 August 2012
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
The Fairy Queen is based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and is a mixture of opera and ballet played out in a succession of human and mythological scenes in all its Baroque splendour.
Our Review:
20 July 2012
'O Showes! Showes! Mighty Showes!
The Eloquence of Masques! What need of prose
Or Verse, or Sense...'
Ben Jonson's ironic lines sum up this gloriously absurd yet moving production of Purcell's 'semi-opera,' revived from the 2009 'entertainment' with even more emphasis on 'exotick' theatrical shocks and surprises such as the Sun God's descent, the perma-tanned Adam and Eve beside the Tree of Knowledge which Eve uses as a dance pole after she eats the apple, and of course that warren of bonking bunnies. When the work was first performed in 1692 it almost bankrupted the Dorset Garden Theatre, but it's safe to assume that Jonathan Kent's staging, which so wonderfully fuses baroque splendour and elegance with the most delectable whimsy, will have no such effect on Glyndebourne.
Paul Brown's beautiful design is based around a 17th century gentleman's residence, its glass cabinets used not only to store the souvenirs from his Grand Tour but to provide a br...
Creative
Purcell (Author)
Glyndebourne Opera (Producer)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Company)
Glyndebourne Chorus (Company)
Laurence Cummings (Conductor)
Jonathan Kent (Director)
Paul Brown (Design)
Mark Hunderson (Lighting)
Kim Brandstrup (Choreographer)
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