Henry Purcell
All That Froth: Morris Gives Purcell a Cutesy Vaudeville Treatment
New York City Opera
Mark Morris’ King Arthur at the New York City Opera.
One of the givens about Mark Morris is that he’s especially musical. And certainly he’s shown an unusually broad and knowledgeable appreciation of music in his choice of scores. Just as important, he’s trained his dancers to inhabit the music fully and sensitively. (He himself was deeply musical as a dancer.) So what to make of his version of Henry Purcell’s semi-opera, semi-masque King Arthur, now at the New York City Opera? read more »
