LONDON, Fri 12th, 7.30pm
Purcell's Dioclesian with the Baroque orchestra of the Royal College of Music, directed by Ashley Solomon.
Dancers of Mercurius Company performing new choreographies by Ricardo Barros and Madeleine Inglehearn.
Concert Hall
Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road,
SW7 2BS
Telephone: 020 7589 3643
More info: www.rcm.ac.uk
Admission £5, £10, £15
People involved:
Ricardo Barros
Kornelia Gomulka
Madeleine Inglehearn
Barbara Segal
Jennifer Thorp
Sasza Zargowski
Ruth Wharrier
This March, we're pleased to be offering a rare chance to see the work that made the operatic career of Henry Purcell.
While his earlier work Dido and Aeneas was a flop, Purcell's semi-opera The Prophetess, or the History of Dioclesian was a great success, and led directly to commissions for King Arthur and then The Fairy Queen.
The "sumptuous and varied" music (The New Grove Dictionary of Opera) offers a stream of instrumental and vocal highlights as we are led through the life of the emporer Dioclesian.
This concert performance will include baroque dance sequences choreographed by Ricardo Barros and Madeleine Inglehearn, and performed by Mercurius Company.
This performance is dedicated to the memory of Douglas Craig who died last year at the age of 93. Douglas was Director of Opera at the Royal Colege of Music between 1977 and 1980, and enjoyed a distinguished career as a singer, producer and director with many great British operatic institutions including Opera for All, Sadler's Wells, Glyndebourne, London Opera Centre and Welsh National Opera.
http://www.rcm.ac.uk/Events/Purcell%27s+Dioclesian
http://www.mercuriuscompany.co.uk
