Here's a press release from the Academy of Ancient Music for their forthcoming performance of Purcell's "King Arthur":
Director Daisy Evans, founder of the innovative opera company Silent Opera , will work her magic on our performance of Purcell's semi-opera King Arthur next week.
Preserving Purcell and Dryden's original music and lyrics but replacing the spoken texts with poetry by William Shakespeare, Shelley, Blake, TS Eliot, Robinson Jeffers, Wislawa Szymborska and Ali Smith, Evans has created a King Arthur that's bang up to date with today's tumultuous political landscape and encourages to question what it means to be British in the post-Brexit era..
It may or may not appeal to you, but I can't help thinking that it's quite a shift away from the AAM's original claim to being historically informed.
Director Daisy Evans, founder of the innovative opera company Silent Opera , will work her magic on our performance of Purcell's semi-opera King Arthur next week.
Preserving Purcell and Dryden's original music and lyrics but replacing the spoken texts with poetry by William Shakespeare, Shelley, Blake, TS Eliot, Robinson Jeffers, Wislawa Szymborska and Ali Smith, Evans has created a King Arthur that's bang up to date with today's tumultuous political landscape and encourages to question what it means to be British in the post-Brexit era..
It may or may not appeal to you, but I can't help thinking that it's quite a shift away from the AAM's original claim to being historically informed.
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