Venue
Duke's Hall
Price
£20

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Programme Details

Elizabeth Kenny director
Academy Baroque Soloists
Musicians from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris

LULLY Scenes from Isis, Le triomphe de l’amour and Armide
PURCELL Scenes from King Arthur and The Fairy Queen
GRABU Scene from Albion and Albanius
PURCELL Scenes from The History of Dioclesian

Spectacular chaconnes, singing icicles and mysterious characters of the night: Henry Purcell drew on some of Lully’s most famous opera scenes and turned them into iconic episodes of Restoration theatre that are much loved to this day.
Here we present extracts by Lully alongside Purcell’s deliberate imitations, allowing audiences and student performers to make fully informed comparisons. The performance will be repeated on Thursday 5 February at Les Invalides in Paris.

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