2018
Performance of The Sleeping Queen, Michael William Balfe (1808-1870)
22 January 2018, John Field Room, NCH, now available on YouTube
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A rare staged performance of an operatic work by Irish composer Michael William Balfe, probably the foremost composer of opera in the English language during the nineteenth century. Among his twenty-eight staged works, The Sleeping Queen is Balfe's only operetta with a cast of four characters and original scoring for piano accompaniment. It was first presented in 1864 at Thomas German Reed’s Gallery of Illustration, Regent Street London, a unique venue specializing in plays, entertainments and small-scale operatic productions.
Presented by DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama - a vocal and drama department collaboration
