"Bringing music to life" is the motto of the Harlequin wind ensemble – a challenging precept when set in the moribund ambience of a half-filled Purcell Room. None the less, through a relaxed and ...
PURCELL'S semi-opera The Indian Queen, unfinished at the time of his death in 1695, has been resurrected by English National Opera’s livewire director Peter Sellars. The rarely performed work is now ...
THE striking thing about Armonico Consort's The Magic Flute was how simple it was. They're a company with a reputation for doing clever things with operas - witness their transformation of Purcell's ...