The Fairy Queen, English Touring Opera, ETO, Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, October 2011
Posted on 12 October 2011Purcell for the twenty first century — or perhaps the seventeenth, or the nineteenth — and it’s enormous fun. This semi-opera, based on Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, is a series of masques written by Purcell a century later in the early 1690s, and this production is based on the incarceration in a mental hospital of nineteenth …