King Arthur
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 5, 2008
Closed Mar 15, 2008
Opened Mar 5, 2008
Closed Mar 15, 2008
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Running Time:
1hr. 50min.
1hr. 50min.
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Throughout his impressive career, Mark Morris has been inspired by Baroque music to create many of his richest theatrical expressions. This acclaimed production offers a rare opportunity to rediscover Purcell and to experience "a witty, whimsical, mesmerizing, and meltingly beautiful entertainment" (The Times, London). The eminent Isaac Mizrahi provides the wonderfully wild array of costumes.
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With Monty Python's Spamalot entering its third year on Broadway, and the New York Philharmonic getting ready to present Camelot, King Arthur is one popular fellow in New York these days. So why is the titular monarch nowhere to be seen -- or heard -- in Mark Morris' often enchanting and decidedly unconventional version of John Dryden and Henry Purcell's 17th-century opera,
King Arthur, which has just kicked off New York City's Opera spring season.
The answer, as Morris freely admits, is that the maverick director-choreographer actively disliked Dryden's story, a complicated affair about Arthur's quest to unify Britain and rescue his beloved from his evil enemy, and has thrown all of it out[...]