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King Arthur, or The British Worthy (Z. 628), is a semi-opera [1] in five acts with music by Henry Purcell and a libretto by John Dryden.It was first performed at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden, London, in late May or early June 1691.
Fairest Isle" is one of the best-regarded songs by the 17th-century English composer Henry Purcell, a setting of words by John Dryden. It first appeared as a soprano solo in their semi-opera King Arthur (1691), where it is sung by the goddess Venus in praise of the island of Britain as the home of Love. It has since frequently been performed ...
In the forty years since its release it has been much quoted and sampled and performed by various ensembles. It is based on the Prelude to Act III, Scene 2 of Henry Purcell’s opera, King Arthur. [1]
Category: Operas by Henry Purcell. ... King Arthur (opera) This page was last edited on 9 January 2019, at 23:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
John Dryden's masque King Arthur is still performed, largely thanks to Henry Purcell's music, though seldom unabridged. Tennyson and the revival In the early 19th century, medievalism , Romanticism , and the Gothic Revival reawakened interest in Arthur and the medieval romances.
King Arthur, or The British Worthy by John Dryden, with music by Henry Purcell (1691) [2] King Arthur by Laurence Binyon, with music by Edward Elgar (1923) [3] King Arthur by D. G. Bridson, with music by Benjamin Britten (1937) [4] Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (1960).
Henry Purcell (/ ˈ p ɜːr s əl /, rare: / p ər ˈ s ɛ l /; [n 1] c. 10 September 1659 [n 2] – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream called The Fairy Queen.
After Locke's death, a second flowering produced the semi-operas of Henry Purcell, notably King Arthur and The Fairy-Queen. Semi-opera received a deathblow when the Lord Chamberlain separately licensed plays without music and the new Italian opera [citation needed]. Semi-operas were performed with singing, speaking and dancing roles.