Lucie Skeaping explores Purcell's semi-opera, The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. With excerpts from each of the masques from various recordings. Show more Lucie ...

Madness, magic and music abound in Opera Theater of Yale College’s production of “The Fairy Queen” — an operatic adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” “The Fairy ...

New Delhi: The world’s oldest steam locomotive, the 162-year-old Fairy Queen, will leave the railway museum and go on a journey from Delhi Cantonment to Rewari in Haryana on Saturday. It will travel ...

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 ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This evening delivered a couple of firsts. To mark the 350th anniversary of Purcell’s birth Glyndebourne Festival ...

CHENNAI: Elegies may have been written about the world’s oldest steam locomotive ‘Fairy Queen’ after some of its famed components were stolen last year. But the engineers at Perambur Loco Works have ...

It’s not the Palace on Wheels but they’re still selling the Maharaja idea. Or so it seems. There is a turbaned waiter with tea and coffee, a reception committee complete with marigold mala and tilak, ...

As an opera composer, Henry Purcell is best known for a single piece: the drama Dido and Aeneas, which dates from around the 1680s. Strictly speaking, it's the only opera Purcell ever wrote. Many ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When Glyndebourne first performed Henry Purcell’s 1692 semi-opera The Fairy Queen in 2009 to mark the 350th ...