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TUESDAY 21 JULY 2009
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- 4.45pm Proms Literary Festival: Elizabeth I
- 6.30pm Prom 7: The Fairy Queen
4.45pm Proms Literary Festival Historian Alison Weir and critic John Carey explore myth and reality of Elizabeth I, the monarch who inspired Spenser's The Faerie Queene; Rana Mitter presents. Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 7: Purcell - The Fairy Queen (semi-staged)
- Date Tuesday 21 July 2009
- Time 6.30pm - c10.30pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £8 - £44 price band B or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
- This programme is no longer available.
Purcell's most lavish theatre score launches our celebration marking the 350th anniversary of his birth. Devised to grace a cut-down version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream – omitting all the scenes that fellow anniversarian Felix Mendelssohn set to music 150 years later (Prom 72) – this 'semi-opera' takes the form of a series of fantastical masques presented for the entertainment of Titania, Oberon and their fairy court.
Baroque master William Christie presides over a semi-staging of this summer's new production by Glyndebourne Festival Opera, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.
- There will be one interval
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Programme notes available:
- Purcell The Fairy Queen (Part I: 1hr 49", Part II: 1hr 41")
- Glyndebourne Festival Opera
- Cast to include:
- Carolyn Sampson soprano
- Lucy Crowe soprano
- Claire Debono soprano
- Anna Devin soprano
- Sean Clayton tenor
- Ed Lyon tenor
- Adrian Ward tenor
- Andrew Foster-Williams bass-baritone
- Lukas Kargl baritone
- Desmond Barrit Drunken Poet/Bottom
- Jotham Annan Puck
- Joseph Millson Oberon
- Sally Dexter Tatiana
- Terrence Hardiman Egeus
- William Gaunt Theseus
- Paul McCleary Quince
- Brian Pettifer Snug
- Robert Burt Mopsa / Flute
- Jack Chissick Snout
- Roger Sloman Starveling
- Oliver Kieran-Jones Lysander
- Helen Bradbury Helena
- Susannah Wise Hermina
- Oliver Le Sueur Demetrius
- Francesca Gilpin Director
- Glyndebourne Chorus
- Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- William Christie conductor
- Semi-staging for BBC Proms directed by Francesca Gilpin, based on the original production for Glyndebourne by Jonathan Kent.
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