First shown in London in 1964, which musical is based on the legend of King Arthur?
King Arthur (opera) ocean around Britain. The Four Winds create a storm which is calmed by Aeolus: allowing Britannia to rise from the waves on an island with fishermen at her feet. Notes Sources Other sources King Arthur (opera) King Arthur, or The British Worthy (Z. 628), is a semi-opera in five acts with music by Henry Purcell and a libretto by John Dryden. It was first performed at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden, London, in late May or early June 1691. The plot is based on the battles between King Arthur's Britons and the Saxons, rather than the legends of Camelot (although
The Legend of King Arthur in detail, but the resulting periodic presentation, if not the medium itself, dilutes the force and drama of the Arthurian story in a way that rarely happens in literature, and certainly not either in the French Vulgate or in Malory." A tie-in novel, "The Legend of King Arthur", authored by the screenwriter Andrew Davies, was published in London by Fontana/Armada in 1979. The serial was released on VHS by BBC Video in 1985, and on DVD by Simply Media in 2016. The Legend of King Arthur The Legend of King Arthur is a British television fantasy serial, produced by the