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BY PURCELL
Prologue written by Kate Mulvany
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Special thanks to Margie Seale, David Hardy and Jenny Boddington for their generous support in sponsoring the new prologue, written by Kate Mulvany.
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Purcell was born into a family of court musicians the year before Charles II was invited to restore the monarchy. The Restoration was a time of new theatres, a new court orchestra and a new Chapel Royal with the brightest crop of new boys ever known: John Blow, Pelham Humfrey, Michael Wise and Purcell. Their teacher was the kindly Captain Cooke and, outside the Chapel, Purcell came under the influence of the worldly and slightly mad Matthew Locke who introduced him to the delights of the theatre and prepared him for the realities of working as a musician in London.
THU 30 MAY 7PM
SAT 1 JUN 2PM
SUN 2 JUN 5PM
MON 3 JUN 7PM
Sung in English with surtitles
70 minutes no interval
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