Following Purcell's premature death, his opera Dioclesian remained popular until well into the eighteenth century,[REF] but the score of The Fairy-Queen was lost and only rediscovered early in the twentieth century [REF].
In July 2009, two months before the 350th anniversary of Purcell's birth, The Fairy-Queen was performed in a new edition, prepared for The Purcell Society by Bruce Wood and Andrew Pinnock, which restored the entire theatrical entertainment as well as the original pitch used by Purcell.