Purcell’s The Fairy Queen / Les Arts Florissants / Prom 24 / Royal Albert Hall

Goblins and elves meet street dance as Paul Agnew makes his Proms conducting debut and soloists from Le Jardin des Voix (the vocal academy run by Les Arts Florissants) and dancers from Merzouki’s troupe combine in this moving and imaginative meeting of genres.

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*** Meet-up pre-concert:
- As I am promming, the meeting point will be the promming queue near door 1 from 6 pm until doors open at 7 pm. You can join during this waiting time even if you have regular seats.
- If you have regular tickets and want to set up a meeting point with others at a different time, please coordinate in the comments. For example, you could meet at door 12, which is the main entrance with the cafe, both indoors and outdoors.

*** Meet-up interval:
Outside door 12

*** Post-concert chat:
Outside door 12

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# Prom 24: Purcell’s The Fairy Queen

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Tuesday 6 August 2024
Auditorium
Starts: 7:00pm, Doors: 6:00pm
After critically acclaimed runs in New York, Paris and around the world, Mourad Merzouki’s staging of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen comes to the Proms.
Expression and spontaneity characterise both Merzouki’s hip hop-derived dance, Paul Agnew’s musical direction and Purcell’s 1692 composition, a series of allegorical celebrations of young love based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (For two other major musical responses to the play, see Proms 36 & 68.)
Goblins and elves meet street dance as Paul Agnew makes his Proms conducting debut and soloists from Le Jardin des Voix (the vocal academy run by Les Arts Florissants) and dancers from Merzouki’s troupe combine in this moving and imaginative meeting of genres.

## Programme

Purcell The Fairy Queen 102’ (semi-staged; sung and spoken in English, with English surtitles)

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Paulina Francisco soprano
Georgia Burashko mezzo-soprano
Rebecca Leggett mezzo-soprano
Juliette Mey mezzo-soprano
Rodrigo Carreto tenor
Ilja Aksionov tenor
Hugo Herman-Wilson baritone
Benjamin Schilperoort bass-baritone
Compagnie Käfig
Les Arts Florissants
Paul Agnew conductor
Mourad Merzouki choreographer/stage director
There will be one interval.