Kim Brandstrup
The Fairy Queen
premiere
June 21, 2009, Premiere of Glyndebourne Festival Opera production
further performances
July 29, to August 8, 2009
Opéra Comique, Paris January 6, 2010 followed by further performances
Opera House, Caen January 31, 2010
Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York March 19, 2010 and 3 subsequent
performances
Creative Team
Producers
Glyndebourne Festival Opera/Opéra Comique, Paris
Director
Jonathan Kent
Choreographer
Kim Brandstrup
Designs
Paul Brown
Lighting
Mark Henderson
Conductor
William Christie/Laurence Cummings
Orchestra
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Glyndebourne)
Dancers
Tommy Franzen
Laura Caldow
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The Fairy Queen
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Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 21 June 2009
Review Extracts
“Kim Brandstrup's choreography is both discreet and exquisite.”
Edward Seckerson, The Independent June 21, 2009
"There’s a deliciously filthy dance for copulating bunnies, energetically whizzing through a kind of Kama Sutra for rabbits. That’s the highlight of Kim Brandstrup’s playful choreography."
Richard Morrison, The Times, June 22, 2009
"But this fairy land is also unconventional, a dark and frightening place and, at its most serious, rather like Goya's black paintings. Marvellous dancers tread the air or fly, like human kites, on long red leashes (seductive choreography by Kim Brandstrup). You wouldn't want to mess with this lot."
Kate Kellaway, The Observer,
With playing of this vivacity, intimacy and character, sinuous choreography (Kim Brandstrup) and often charming singing and acting, it seems churlish to complain.
Anna Picard, Independent on Sunday
"The theatrical and dance components of the production are beyond my purview, but the portrayals of Oberon (Finbar Lynch), Titania (Amanda Harris), Lysander (Nicholas Shaw), Helena (Joanna Herbert) and Bottom (Desmond Barrit) contributed importantly to the liveliness of the production, as did Kim Brandstrup’s imaginative, fluid choreography."
Allan Kozinn, New York Times
Programme Note
Kim Brandstrup worked with director Jonathan Kent on Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s new production of The Fairy Queen - Purcell’s joyous response to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which incorporates much of Shakespeare’s text into a fascinating carnival of music, theatre and dance. In addition to Shakespeare’s characters, Purcell also conjures up a wild array of gods and goddesses, nymphs and sprites, fairies and shepherds, dancing swans and figures of dream.
In addition to an international lineup of specialist Baroque soloists, the cast included a group of eight dancers with whom Brandstrup worked to create a series of fantastical masques which punctuate the action.