Liza Gardner Walsh uses a little magic to spark children’s imagination and love for the outdoors. Fairies are a vehicle, a way to talk about nature, fragility, and conservation. I studied literature ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. As The Magicians fans know full well, no one ...

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 ...

After two years of remote opera work, the UC Santa Cruz Music Department presents Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen in a very special outdoor production to celebrate the return of fully-staged, live ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review | Les Arts Florissants By Allan Kozinn The English were wary of the Continental taste for opera in the 17th century, but they liked the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...