Purcell is a great gift. Not many listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gssuCGqTI6w One of Purcell's lyrics from Boudica gives us a clue to his early demise aged 36: "Great ministers of fate, in this deep cave you sit in state, famine and pestilence about you wait." (Purcell was talking about the priests, who are the ministers of fate...the poisoners) That last opera was about the ancient British/Roman war, and the British heroine Boudica. The Romans are the bad guys.
Purcell is a great gift. Not many listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gssuCGqTI6w One of Purcell's lyrics from Boudica gives us a clue to his early demise aged 36: "Great ministers of fate, in this deep cave you sit in state, famine and pestilence about you wait." (Purcell was talking about the priests, who are the ministers of fate...the poisoners) That last opera was about the ancient British/Roman war, and the British heroine Boudica. The Romans are the bad guys.