ARISE YE SUBTERRANEAN WINDS

Arise Ye Subterranean Winds
Richard already established tradition of reinventing Shakespeare's plays for the musical stage. In 1667 the poet John Dryden made modifications to The Tempest, adding characters and augmenting it with incidental music. The vocal sections of these semi-operas were often cast as self-contained scenes themselves, enabling coherent performance outside the theatre. In recent years, serious doubt about Purcell's authorship of the music for The Tempest have arisen, it may never be known for certain who wrote the music for The Tempest. The original play The Tempest is of course by William Shakespeare. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skilful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to the island.
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) is generally considered to be

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