NCS Chamber Choir and Choral Society once again joined forces with the Instruments of Time and Truth, together with five outstanding soloists, to give a performance of Henry Purcell’s fiendishly difficult opera, The Fairy Queen — a retelling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We performed from a rarely used edition created for concert performance by Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, and Imogen Holst. This was a project of epic proportions and great musical complexity; the singers and instrumentalists had to work particularly hard in the performance; but it came off very well indeed. All the performers, but most especially the boys, should be extremely proud of what they achieved! This concert concluded a trio of Purcell operas performed by NCS in recent years: the previous concerts were Dido and Aeneas (2019) and King Arthur (2020).