The Fairy Queen
Henry Purcell’s Fairy Queen was composed in 1692 and takes Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream and interweaves it with musical masques ‘adorn’d with Scenes, Machines, Songs and Dances’. The genre is now described as semi-opera and has its roots in restoration drama but also draws on the French tradition of Lully’s Comédies-Ballets and Tragédies Lyriques.
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