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Iford Arts is proud to announce the creation of a new performing version of A Fairy Queen
Conductor: Christian Curnyn
Director: Tim Nelson
Sung in English
Titania – Lucy Page
Hermia – Ciara Hendrick
Demetrius/Bottom – Jon Stainsby
Puck – Frederick Long
Fairy/Peter Quince – Stuart Jackson
Oberon – Jake Arditti
Helena/Snout – Rose Setten
Anyone who has ever fallen madly in love should be in the audience for Fairy Queen at Iford. It is based firmly on scenes from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. Tim Nelson has created a new performing version of Henry Purcell’s score fused more closely than heretofore with Shakespeare’s most beloved comic fantasy. Purcell’s brilliant, acid, spikey, haunting, dance-driven music will be performed by Christian Curnyn and his Early Opera Company orchestra, together with a starry cast of singers. The music in our new version creates a continuous thread, entangling the Fairies, the runaway lovers and the ‘rude mechanicals’ together in an English dreamworld. In the other- worldly atmosphere of Iford, other-worldly explanations are as good as any other to explain the ridiculous and inexplicable gusts of human passion…
“Iford is a gem” Hugh Canning. the Sunday Times