Queen Mab - Music

Music

Hector Berlioz (1803–1869), the French composer, in 1839 composed a symphony entitled Roméo et Juliette that includes a Queen Mab Scherzo.

The 1867 opera Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod (1818–1893) includes the aria "Mab, la reine des mensonges (Mab, the queen of illusions.)"

The song "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke", of Queen's second album Queen II, written by Freddie Mercury, mentions Mab in the part: "Oberon and Titania watched by a Harridan/Mab is the queen and there's a good apothecary man."

In the off-Broadway musical Bare, a Pop Opera, an abridged version of Queen Mab is sung by the character Peter, who is playing Mercutio in the fictional school which is putting on Romeo & Juliet.

In the video for the song "Night Boat" from Duran Duran's first album, Duran Duran, singer Simon Le Bon recites the beginning of the Queen Mab speech before singing his own original lyrics.

There is a track on the album HMS Donovan by Donovan Leitch called "Queen Mab," it is based on a poem by Thomas Hood.

Murder by Death's album Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon features an instrumental track named "Queen Mab".

Traile of Murder's debut album, Shades of Art, features a song, "Mab", inspired by the character in the TV mini-series Merlin.

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