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King Arthur is best known today as an operatic masterpiece by English baroque composer Henry Purcell. Originally, however, his sublime music and songs were part of a much larger multidisciplinary ...

Dancers from Theatre Ballet perform to music by Allegro during a rehearsal of Purcell's "King Arthur." (Brian Plonka / The Spokesman-Review) Friday, 8 p.m. at The Met. Tickets are $10 to $23, through ...

If John Dryden and Henry Purcell had found success together, modern ideas about opera might be very different now. The semi-opera “King Arthur” — being staged this Saturday, Nov. 19, by a ...

Vox Luminis, directed with a light touch by bass Lionel Meunier, turn their egalitarian talents to King Arthur (1691) and harvest the fruits of Purcell and Dryden’s collaborative imagination with ...

The 1691 premiered semi-Opera King Arthur of the "Orpheus britannicus" Henry Purcell, John Dryden wrote the libretto to which, combines drama, music, dance and spectacle. "Music and poetry can be for ...

As part of their 2017 Summer Festival, American Bach Soloists presented two performances, August 10-11, of 17th century British composer Henry Purcell’s King Arthur at San Francisco Conservatory of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It may be over 300 years since Purcell’s King Arthur first saw the light of day, but its time has surely come.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1691, Purcell and Dryden joined forces to create a patriotic pageant for their times. Their semi-opera King ...