With Purcell’s music for the latter valued above its rhyming-couplet dialogue, it’s rare to see the work today except in purely musical form. Purcell’s cast of rustics, gods and spirits can be ...

‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’ so the saying goes. A parallel, albeit more positive, phrase might be applied to Polly Graham’s new production of The Fairy Queen for Longborough Festival ...

LENOX — Opera takes over the Tanglewood grounds this week, with a mighty snippet from the genre’s most famous epic and a contemporary take on a baroque spectacular. On July 18, Les Arts Florissants, a ...

I didn’t take an umbrella along to the Coliseum, often a disastrous mistake in view of the current laughable attempt at summer weather offered to inhabitants of London town. I needn’t have worried, ...

Hugo Herman-Wilson and Ilja Aksionov in "Now the maids and the men are making of hay" in "The Fairy Queen" at Tanglewood. Rebecca Leggett performs "I am come to lock all fast" with dancer Timothée Zig ...

LENOX — In Henry Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen,” writes Le Jardin des Voix co-director Paul Agnew, “the night descends and the magic commences.” As night fell on Ozawa Hall, a spirited, inventive ...

“American Apollo” by Damien Geter and Lila Palmer, which had its world premiere at Des Moines Metro Opera earlier this month, touchingly imagines the artistic and erotic relationship between two real ...