Henry Purcell - The Fairy Queen "If Love`s A Sweet Passion"

[gr4l9um20b7o]

Oh yeah, is the dance as its original being?

[Rusdie77]

Ennah08 Thank you! What a good news! And christmas is getting close... :)

[colinmichie]

i have to know it almost all for my music exam, this is the best version out of all them!

[Rusdie77]

Do you know anything about this performance? Company? Orchestra? Theatre? Actors? Etc.?

It's really great!

[Ennah08]

@Rusdie77 There is a DVD! A production from 1995, reissued in 2009.I watched it and loved most of it. "English National Opera" with Thomas Randle and Yvonne Kenny among others. The opera as a whole is rather messy but it is VERY charming, I think!!!

[Rusdie77]

@Ennah08 Thank you! That's a great news! Christmas is close... :)

[koelnkorrekt]

@Ennah08: If you translate "messy" into German you get "unordentlich

schmutzig, dreckig, schmuddelig" (to be translated back into: "messy, dirty, dirty, grubby". I do not think I would agree ;-)

My favorite version: Bonney, Von Magnus, McNair &c. Arnold Schönberg Chor, Concertus musicus Wien, by Nicholas Harnoncourt.

[Ennah08]

@koelnkorrekt

I didn't meen to put this production down in any way, but look at the stage here, isn't it a bit "unordentlish" - the plot is rather strange - The drunken poet is of course dirty! - and in modern language I think you could call it dirty when the fairy queen is spending the night with a donkey, even if she is under a spell... Perhaps I should borrow your favorite version from my library ;-)

[RickBanner]

its amazing, do you have this DVD or something?

[ERM0NIA]

Unfortunately, I have no DVD

[warroirsfury]

what dvd is this? I would love to see it.

[BernardProfitendieu]

it's a Baroque Opera, not Classical ...

... and this is a wonderful performance of it! thanks

[yamiyugikun]

I love this song from the Fairy Queen, amazing!

[ramobu]

pretty