Sat Jun 12 · 8:00pm
The Dragon of Wantley
John Frederick Lampe's 1736 burlesque sends up Handelian opera: a dragon is eating Yorkshire and only the local squire can stop it, if he will put down his beer. It ran for forty-five years, the most performed opera in eighteenth-century England. Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs conduct; Gilbert Blin directs this encore of BEMF's 2023 staging.