Madness, magic and music abound in Opera Theater of Yale College’s production of “The Fairy Queen” — an operatic adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” “The Fairy ...

LENOX — Opera takes over the Tanglewood grounds this week, with a mighty snippet from the genre’s most famous epic and a contemporary take on a baroque spectacular. On July 18, Les Arts Florissants, a ...

LENOX — In Henry Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen,” writes Le Jardin des Voix co-director Paul Agnew, “the night descends and the magic commences.” As night fell on Ozawa Hall, a spirited, inventive ...

As with several other of Purcell’s stage works, it’s hard to define exactly what The Fairy Queen is. Not opera: it was intended to be performed within Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ...