Event: The Fairy Queen (1692), Purcell's adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Fantastic music and performance, Troubling dramaturgy (Benny Hill + Colonial British Empire humor). One Woman is both mesmerized, blown away by the sensitivity and depth affect of Baroque performance and sheer scale of this Opéra Comique/theater/dance production, and highly disappointed by the conservative political interpretation which, based on the original text, could have been so much more provocative and interesting.
Baroque Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants
Produced by: Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opéra Comique, Théâtre de Caen, and BAM
Musical direction: William Christie
Directed by: Jonathan Kent
Duration: 3 hours 45 minutes
Accompanying libation: Pink mystery "champagne" courtesy of the BAM. Thanks, BAM.
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