The Indian Queen

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November 20, 2013

Henry Purcell died in 1695 while writing his last opera, The Indian Queen. His brother Daniel provided an uninspired completion of the rich, visionary, and transcendent score by the British master. More than three centuries later, the Teatro Real presents the world premiere of a fresh version and unpublished final work of Purcell, incorporating some of his most inspired music, as well as a new script adapted from writings of the Nicaraguan novelist Rosario Aguilar. This new fusion of dance, music, literature, theater and visual arts depicts the first contact between Europeans and the Maya of the New World, a story of personal conquest through the lives of those women who created a new culture. 

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