The Fairy Queen was composed to fit between acts of Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, musically expressing the play’s themes of nature, transformation, love and magic.

This new production will use the dramatic framework from Shakespeare’s text: combining words and music to present Purcell’s beautiful, life-affirming score. A newly commissioned genre-bending arrangement will blend Baroque with folk music, co-music directed by baroque violinist and composer Naomi Burrell, and composer and conductor Harry Sever, our Ring Cycle Conducting Fellow.

Longborough’s Artistic Director Polly Graham will direct this joyful show for all the family, featuring our Emerging Artists and Youth Chorus.

In this production, Peter will be singing the role of Lysander.