{"id":291,"date":"2024-04-03T19:53:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T19:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/?page_id=291"},"modified":"2024-04-19T13:39:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T13:39:24","slug":"flowers-and-brigands","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/flowers-and-brigands\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowers and Brigands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\">The Legend of the Flowers and Brigands<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-323\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">St Kyneburgha <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"289\" src=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1.png 602w, https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1-300x144.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Operetta \u2013 Legend of the Flowers and\nBrigands.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story is\nset around 670 AD in the village of Castor, Cambridgeshire, UK.&nbsp; The central character is Princess Kyneburgha\nwho founded a monastery and was later made a saint. She was also involved with\nthe Legend of the \u2018Flowers and Brigands\u2019 upon which the story of the operetta\nis loosely based. The operetta has been commissioned in 2022 by the village as\npart of the 900 year celebrations of the foundation of St Kyneburgha\u2019s church\nin Castor in 1124. Ermine Street is a Roman road that runs past Castor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Legend<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kyneburgha\ncame to Castor after the death of her husband and founded a monastery. One day\nwhen she was out in the woods she was attacked by brigands, who she believed\nwere going to kill her.&nbsp; As they\napproached her they were swallowed up by the road and disappeared leaving only\nflowers blossoming along the edge of the track.&nbsp;\nShe returned to the monastery declaring that a miracle had occurred.\nThis became known locally as the Legend of the Flowers and Brigands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"727\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Castor-Operetta-flyer_original-727x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Castor-Operetta-flyer_original-727x1024.jpg 727w, https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Castor-Operetta-flyer_original-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Castor-Operetta-flyer_original-768x1082.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legend of the Flowers and Brigands St Kyneburgha Operetta \u2013 Legend of the Flowers and Brigands. The story is set around 670 AD in the village of Castor, Cambridgeshire, UK.&nbsp; The central character is Princess Kyneburgha who founded a monastery and was later made a saint. She was also involved with the Legend of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-291","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}