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| Dido & Aeneas 1700 directed by Jonathan Miller |
NEW LONDON CONSORT
Philip Pickett |
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Jonathan Miller director
Eskandar costumes
Julia Gooding Dido
Michael George Aeneas
Joanne Lunn Belinda
Dana Marbach Peace
Faye Newton 1st Enchanteress
Revital Raviv 2nd Enchanteress
Christopher Robson Spirit
Mark Chambers Friend of Aeneas
Joseph Cornwell Mars
Andrew
King Sailor
Simon Grant Sorceress
Mark Rowlinson Prologue |
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MORE NEW PROJECTS, MORE NEW REPERTOIRE
In repertoire from Spring 2008 …
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EASTER ORATORIO
Unique and iconoclastic semi-stagings of Bach’s Easter Oratorio and Cantata 66 Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen. Too-rarely performed today, perhaps because of the sustained virtuosity demanded of the instrumentalists and singers, these semi-dramatic pieces rank among Bach’s most vibrant and human masterworks and constitute a brilliant, colourful and uplifting contrast to the Passions at Easter - or an exciting and attractive programme suitable for any time of year and any venue be it a concert hall, theatre or church.
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THE INDIAN QUEEN
Purcell's last and perhaps most brilliant theatrical masterpiece, first performed in 1695 with a concluding Masque of Hymen by his brother Daniel. With roles for Indian boys and girls, Fame, Envy, the conjurer Ismeron, the God of Dreams, Hymen and more, the piece is set in Mexico, where Queen Zempoalla must defend her kingdom against the invading adventurer Montezuma and his band of Peruvian Incas. New performing edition by Philip Pickett.
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THE FAIRY QUEEN
Purcell’s incidental music for the anonymous Restoration adaptation of Midsummer Night’s Dream contains some of the most seductive melodies of the Baroque. The libretto was only loosely based on the situations of Shakespeare's play, allowing Purcell’s musical imagination free rein. Fairies pinch and torment a drunken poet, Night, Secrecy, Mystery and Sleep appear, and there are bucolic romps, panoramas of the seasons and even a Chinese pantomime.
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DON QUIXOTE
Durfey’s three-part dramatization of Cervantes’ Don Quixote delighted London’s theatre-goers in the 1690s. The music, by Purcell and Eccles, is a colourful concoction of nobility, courtly elegance, funereal gravity, Arcadian simplicity, madness, supernatural fantasy and the down-to-earth vigour of folk-song and ballad from street and tavern. World exclusive, reconstructed Holman and Pickett.
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