Madness, magic and music abound in Opera Theater of Yale College’s production of “The Fairy Queen” — an operatic adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” “The Fairy ...

LENOX — Opera takes over the Tanglewood grounds this week, with a mighty snippet from the genre’s most famous epic and a contemporary take on a baroque spectacular. On July 18, Les Arts Florissants, a ...

LENOX — In Henry Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen,” writes Le Jardin des Voix co-director Paul Agnew, “the night descends and the magic commences.” As night fell on Ozawa Hall, a spirited, inventive ...

Hugo Herman-Wilson and Ilja Aksionov in "Now the maids and the men are making of hay" in "The Fairy Queen" at Tanglewood. Rebecca Leggett performs "I am come to lock all fast" with dancer Timothée Zig ...

The Fairy Queen was a Restoration spectacular of 1692 whose production design – elaborate costumes, a working fountain, live monkeys – was so over-the-top it almost bankrupted the theatre. As ...

The dancing was simply stunning; the singing consistently fine; the orchestral playing fresh, bold and flavourful – and the integration of all performers into a single company in which vocalists ...