''The Enchanted Island'' is a ''

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'' (pastiche) of music by various baroque composers, including George Frideric Handel,

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, and

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, devised and written by Jeremy Sams after '' The Tempest'' and ''

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'' by

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. It was created by Julian Crouch and

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and premiered by the

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on December 31, 2011, starring David Daniels,

Joyce DiDonato Joyce DiDonato (née Flaherty; born February 13, 1969) is an American lyric-coloratura mezzo-soprano. She is notable for her interpretations of operas and concert works in the 19th-century romantic era in addition to works by Handel and Mozar ...

Danielle de Niese Danielle de Niese (born 11 April 1979) is an Australian-American lyric soprano. After success as a young child in singing competitions in Australia, she moved to the United States where she developed an operatic career. From 2005 she came to w ...

, Luca Pisaroni, and

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. The popular 70-year-old Spanish tenor,

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, played the small but important part of the sea god

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. The following month a performance of the ''pasticcio'' was broadcast live into movie theaters across the world as part of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series. In late 2012, Virgin Classics released this broadcast version on DVD. The Met revived ''The Enchanted Island'' two seasons later. Daniels, de Niese, Pisaroni, and Domingo revived their roles from the premiere. Susan Graham assumed the role of Sycorax from DiDonato.

Roles

Musical numbers

The music has been drawn from the following sources:''The Enchanted Island:'' Provenance of Musical Numbers
The Metropolitan Opera.

Recording

References

External links

Metropolitan Opera

''The Enchanted Island''The music of ''The Enchanted Island''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Enchanted Island, The Operas 2011 operas Operas by multiple composers English-language operas Opera world premieres at the Metropolitan Opera Operas by George Frideric Handel Operas by Antonio Vivaldi Operas by Jean-Philippe Rameau Operas based on The Tempest Operas based on A Midsummer Night's Dream