The Fairy Queen is a performance about fluidity versus rigidity, about gender blurring that transcends all genres.
Henry Purcell (1659-1695), who is seen as the first English opera composer, made The Fairy Queen in which he mixed the original lyrics of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with festive baroque songs. It is therefore called a semi-opera, because of the two genres (texts and music) that are mixed here. In this international Fairy Queen music, dance, theater and puppetry, Ulrike interweaves into an interdisciplinary show in which Ulrike directs dancers, puppet players, singers, a large orchestra and choir in Erfurt, Germany.
Ulrike Quade directs the well-known opera The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell with lyrics from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Fairy Queen is a co-production with Theater Erfurt, Tanztheater Erfurt and Theater Waidspeicher. These three large city theaters have asked Ulrike Quade to direct the semi-opera with twelve dancers, six puppet players, seven singers, a large orchestra and choir in Erfurt, Germany. The premiere took place on 18 May 2019.
,,Boundaries between disciplines are blurring.’’
Thüringer Allgemeine
“So sieht Avantgarde aus, die Spass macht!”
MDR
