Henry Purcell DIDO AND AENEAS - OPERA LIVE STREAMING

Late Restoration drama (NIVEL AVANZADO)

Against Congreve and Restoration drama:

Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. 1698.



Sir John Vanbrugh     (1664-1726)

_____.  The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger. Drama. 1697. Continuation of Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift.
_____. The Provok'd Wife. Drama. 1697.
_____. A Short Vindication of the Relapse and the Provok'd Wife from Immorality and Profaneness. 1698.
_____. The Pilgrim. Drama. Epilogue by John Dryden. 1700.
_____. The False Friend. Drama. 1702. Adapted from Le Sage.
_____. The Country House. Drama. 1703. Trans. from Dancourt.
_____. The Confederacy. Drama. 1705. Trans. from Dancourt.
_____. The Mistake. Drama. 1705. Adapted from Molière.
_____. The Cuckold in Conceit. Drama. 1707. Adapted from Moliére.

Vanbrugh, a playwright and architect, built Blenheim Palace (you can see it at the Dido and Aeneas video), Haymarket Theatre; Clarendon Building at Oxford, with Nicholas Hawksmoor.






GEORGE FARQUHAR  (1678-1707)
        (British dramatist, b. North Ireland, l. London)

_____. Love and a Bottle. Comedy. 1698.
_____. The Adventures of Covent Garden. Comedy. 1699.
_____. The Constant Couple, or a Trip to the Jubilee. Comedy. 1700.
_____. Sir Harry Wildair. Comedy. 1701.
_____. The Inconstant. comedy. 1702.
_____. "A Discourse upon Comedy, in Reference to the English Stage." 1702.
_____. The Twin Rivals. Comedy. 1702.
_____. The Stage-Coach. Comedy. 1704.
_____. The Recruiting Officer. Comedy. 1706.
_____. The Beaux' Stratagem. Comedy. 1707.





Mary Pix, The Innocent Mistress. 1697




THOMAS SOUTHERNE     (1660-1746)
(Augustan dramatist, b. Dublin, l. London)
_____. The Loyal Brother. Drama. 1682.
_____. The Disappointment. Drama. 1684.
_____. Sir Anthony Love. Drama. 1690.
_____. The Wives Excuse. Drama. 1692.
_____. The Maid's Last Prayer. Drama. 1693.
_____. The Fatal Marriage, or the Innocent Adultery. Drama. 1694.
_____. Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave. Drama. Prod. Nov. 1695. Pub. London, 1696. Based on the novel by Aphra Behn.
_____. The Fate of Capua. Drama. 1700.
_____. Money the Mistress. Drama. 1726.
_____. Works. 2 vols. 1713.




NATHANIEL LEE     (c. 1649-1692)
_____. The Tragedy of Nero. Drama. 1674.
_____. Sophonisba; or, Hannibal's Overthrow. Tragedy. 1675.
_____. Gloriana. Tragedy. 1676.
_____. The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great. Drama. 1677.
_____. Mithridates, King of Pontus. Drama. 1678.
_____. Caesar Borgia. Drama. 1680.
_____. Theodosius, or the Force of Love. Drama. 1680.
_____. Lucius Junius Brutus. Drama. 1680.
_____. Constantine the Great. Drama. 1684.
_____. The Princess of Cleve. Drama. 1689.

Nathaniel Lee and John Dryden. Oedipus, King of Thebes.  Tragedy. 1679.
_____. The Duke of Guise. Drama. 1682.

From Oedipus: "Music for a While", by Henry Purcell. Here is a jazz version, or two:




 

William Congreve : The way of the World

Dryden y la música

En la semiópera de Dryden "King Arthur," con música de Purcell, se encuentra una curiosa canción, "Cold Song", aquí la canta Klaus Nomi:









 También existe en versión ópera rock o videoclip.


A la "Oda a Santa Cecilia" de Dryden; le puso música Draghi pero luego escribió otra partitura Handel. 



En YouTube se encuentra la música:



 
Las colaboraciones y versiones de Dryden son innumerables. Aquí hay, de una versión que hizo de Edipo Rey, también con números musicales de Purcell, una canción sobre el encantamiento de la música, "Music for a While":

The Age of Dryden

What is HEROIC DRAMA?

Venus and Adonis - Part I - John Blow

John Blow (1649-1708) - Venus and Adonis.

Earliest surviving English opera, in one Prologue and three Acts.
Premiered in 1683 at King Charles II's Court.

Libretto inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses (NOT based on Shakespeare's poem of the same title).

NIVEL AVANZADO: Trial of The King Killers