Tonight. The Fairy Queen at BAM.
Part play, part song and dance, Henry Purcell’s ribald and irreverent semi-opera The Fairy Queen, in a production by Glyndebourne Festival Opera directed by Jonathan Kent, glistens with theatrical magic. No one knows who wrote the text—a Restoration-era take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream — that slyly comments and elaborates on Shakespeare’s comedy. (via BAM)
