Michael Tanner

Talking too much

The Fairy Queen<br /> The Proms Gluck double bill<br /> Wigmore Hall

issue 01 August 2009

The Fairy Queen
The Proms

Gluck double bill
Wigmore Hall

Purcell’s The Fairy Queen has been a big success at Glyndebourne this year, in a production by Jonathan Kent, and with William Christie conducting. I decided to wait till it came to the Proms, where it was presumably a very different experience.

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