The Fairy Queen (2007)
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As the grand finale to its 30th season and a highlight of the Shakespeare in Washington celebration, the Folger Consort presented Henry Purcell's magical 1691 semi-opera based on A Midsummer Night's Dream. For this rare concert presentation of The Fairy Queen, one of the composer's wittiest and most ravishing scores, the Consort assembled a period orchestra and a stellar cast of virtuoso voices. The Folger Consort performed The Fairy Queen from April 13 to April 15, 2007 in the Folger's Elizabethan Theatre.
Artists
Folger Consort
Artistic Directors
- Robert Eisenstein: violin
- Christopher Kendall: theorbo
Guest artists
Voices: Soloists
- Mark Bleeke: tenor
- Rosa Lamoreaux: soprano
- Francois Loup: baritone
- Drew Minter: countertenor
Special guests
With passages from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Richard Clifford
- Sir Derek Jacobi
- Lynn Redgrave
Voices: Chorus
- Joellen Brassfield: soprano
- Philip Cave: tenor
- Barbara Hollinshead: mezzo soprano
- Robert McDonald: baritone
Orchestra
- Risa Browder: violin
- Michael M. De Sapio: violin
- Nina Falk: violin
- June Huang: violin
- Annie Loud: violin
- Benjamin Van Vilet: violin
- Mariana Renno Jelen: viola
- Scott McCormick: viola
- Sara Wetherbee: viola
- Jodi Beder: cello
- John Moran: cello
- Tracy Mortimore: double bass
- Marilyn Boeneau: bassoon
- Stephen Bard: oboe
- Sarah Weiner: oboe
- Stanley Curtis: trumpet
- Erika Schafer: trumpet
- Webb Wiggins: harpsichord
- Aubrey Adams: kettle drums
Staff
- Richard Clifford, Stage Director