'The Fairy Queen' Opera Online Streaming In Budapest, 9 January
- 4 Jan 2021 10:49 AM
Purcell's The Fairy Queen was originally a “semi-opera”, that is, a series of musical passages created for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream which did not relate an independent story, but only took on true meaning in conjunction with the prose work.
András Almási-Tóth conceives the work as an opera and incorporates the music into a new story. This version of A Midsummer Night's Dream takes place in an urban woodland, with lonely characters, crime, murder and love.
The figure of the Fairy Queen here is a kind of femme fatale: a woman in search of herself and her own happiness and finding neither as she flees from one relationship to the next.
Opera noir in two parts, five acts in English, with Hungarian and English surtitles.
Tickets:
HUF 1,990
Date and time:
Saturday, 9 January, 7 pm
More:
opera.hu
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