Continuo Connect — Concert // Armonico Consort: The Fairy Queen - Henry Purcell

For 15 years, Armonico Consort has been in demand by festivals in the UK and Europe to perform its inimitable version of Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. The singers and actors of the company now turn their attention to Purcell’s greatest semiopera in a brand new semi-staged version with a specially adapted script from Shakespeare’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ create for the first time a modern-day retelling of both of these incredible works in one joyous evening! Armonico Consort will conjure up Purcell’s world of dreams and darkness, love and laughter in a not-to-be-missed evening!

This performance is generously supported by Hilary Eldridge, member of the Conductor’s Circle

ARMONICO CONSORT & BAROQUE PLAYERS

DIRECTOR |CHRISTOPHER MONKS

NARRATORS |OZ CLARKE & LAURA MORETTO

SOPRANO |ELOISE IRVING & HANNAH FRASER-MACKENZIE

ALTO |WILLIAM TOWERS

TENOR | GRAHAM NEAL

BASS | ROBERT DAVIES