Las Vegas Sinfonietta presents The Fairy Queen
Las Vegas Sinfonietta presents The Fairy Queen
Hear ye, hear ye devotees to Baroque-era orchestral music! Las Vegas Sinfonietta is teaming up with the Vegas City Opera to perform Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen.
Composed by Purcell in 1692, the show is a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which focuses mostly on the exploits of Titania — who Shakespeare-lovers know is also “queen of the fairies” in the Bard’s work.
Interestingly, after Purcell’s death in the late 17th century, the score for the Fairy Queen was somehow lost for a few hundred years, only resurfacing in the early 1900s. So this is a newer classic, newer being relative.
Clark County Library
$40
03:00 PM - 05:00 PM on Sun, 17 Nov 2024