Saturday at 8 30 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000, metopera.org, $220 (Tommasini) 'VENUS AND ADONISundayndandand Tuesday) This 1683 masque, composed as a private entertainment for King Charles II, has come to be regarded as an important work in the history of English opera.
The concert opened with a suite from "The Crown of India," a garish ceremonial masque Elgar composed in 1912 to celebrate the crowning of George V as emperor of India.
In 1604 Queen Anne chose him to write a masque, The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses, in which she danced.
Many critics have stated erroneously that they bear no relationship to the play, but recent scholarship has shown that the opera, which ends with a masque featuring Hymen, the God of Marriage, was actually composed for the fifteenth wedding anniversary of William and Mary.
"Every shot is a beautifully composed photograph".
He is a very composed finisher.
Imagine a metapopulation composed of K groups.
This fall, there was another seventeenth-century masque playing in London, John Milton's "Comus: A Masque in Honour of Chastity," at the Globe's candlelit indoor playhouse.
Nor is it exactly a masque, a singspiel, a melodrama or incidental music.
This one may conceivably turn out to be a masque that foretells the plot of a bigger drama to follow.
