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AS TEMPERATURES plunged below zero a while ago, I lay in bed listening to the rattle of the boiler and thought of the frost scene from Henry Purcell’s King Arthur.
This semi-opera “semi” because the main characters do not sing, that’s left to the show’s supernatural figures or drunks was premiered at the Queen’s Theatre in London in 1691 during the “little ice age” of the 17th century.
The poet John Dryden had written an earlier version of the libretto in 1684 to mark the 25th anniversary of the restoration of Charles II and the 1691 production, with music by Henry Purcell, took place in May or June after another bitter winter. ....

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