Emily Owen and Jenni Harper sopranos
Satoko Doi-Luck harpsichord
Kate Conway viola da gamba
Toby Carr theorbo, guitar
Niall Ashdown as Henry Purcell
Clare Norburn script
Thomas Guthrie director
An imaginative piece of music theatre taking the audience on a journey around 17th-century London as composer Henry Purcell reviews his all too short life. He reflects on two major events that transformed the city of London – the Great Plague and the Great Fire – as well as his relationships with his wife and other women.
Supported by The Behrens Foundation
and
the GEMMA Classical Music Trust
Prom Ticket/RVS (on door only) £5
| Programme | ||
|---|---|---|
| All works by Henry Purcell (1659–1695) unless otherwise indicated | >||
| Overture Abdelazar | ||
| Slow Air The Virtuous Wife | ||
| Curtain Tune Timon of Athens (extract) | ||
| What can we poor females do | ||
| I attempt from Love’s sickness to fly | ||
| From rosy bowers (extract) | ||
| Entrance of Night The Fairy Queen | ||
| Bess of Bedlam | ||
| What a sad fate is mine (extract) | ||
| Two daughters King Arthur | ||
| Wilt thou forgive that sin (extract) Pelham Humphryes 1647–1674 | ||
| Prelude and Hornpipe The Fairy Queen | ||
| Make room for the great God of Wine Dioclesian | ||
| INTERVAL | ||
| Rondo Abdelazar | ||
| A Dialogue between Two Wives The Canterbury Guests | ||
| She loves and she confesses too | ||
| Sellenger’s Round John Playford 1623–1686/7 | ||
| Fear no danger Dido and Aeneas (extract) | ||
| My dearest, my fairest Pausanius (extract) | ||
| O dive custos | ||
| Thy hand Belinda… When I am laid in earth Dido and Aeneas | ||
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