Vox Luminis

Vox Luminis

‘As if it had been written especially for them,’ the press cheered about The Fairy Queen à la Vox. For his pioneering semi-opera, Henry Purcell used a text by that other English luminary, William Shakespeare. The result - a fairy tale in which nothing is what it seems - is inhabited by shadow puppets in Isaline Claeys' staging. Scenographer Emilie Lauwers and videographer Mário Melo Costa make the enchantment of this Baroque highlight complete.

Programme

• Henry Purcell

  The Fairy-Queen (1692)  
  libretto: anounymous, after William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream 

  Programme subject to change

  1659-1695

Musicians

• Vox Luminis
• Lionel Meunier musical direction