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 ...

“The idea of the fairy tale sets you free in a way because you can make it up,” Ms. Atwood said. “And I love to make up stuff.” She created an armored ensemble fit for a queen by dressing ...

The Fairy Queen was a Restoration spectacular of 1692 whose production design – elaborate costumes, a working fountain, live monkeys – was so over-the-top it almost bankrupted the theatre.

That imaginary world, based on the classic fairy tale of a princess under a sleeping spell, is densely populated: Tazewell is designing not only for a royal court and a coterie of fairies, but ...

Henry Purcell’s semi-opera “The Fairy Queen” (1692) is the kind of work that the esteemed early-music ensemble Les Arts Florissants is known for keeping alive in performance.