About the Show
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.
An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen. Script by Ruth Mariner with music adapted and edited by William Cole.
Part of Waterperry Opera Festival. This event takes place at Waterperry House & Gardens, Waterperry, Oxford OX33 1LQ
Cast
Rhiannon Llewellyn
Titania
Lucy Knight
Margent
Anna Cavaliero
Ground-Ivy
Felicity Turner
Blackthorn
Alexander Simpson
Cowslip
Laurence Kilsby
Bud
Oliver Brignall
Kernel/Father
Edmund Danon
Oberon
Piran Legg
Moth Wing
Roland Harrad
Puck
Creatives
Purcell
Author
Ruth Mariner
Author
Ruth Mariner
Director
William Cole
Conductor
Simon Bejer
Design
George Lawton
Lighting
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