630) is a largely unfinished semi-opera with music by Henry Purcell, first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, in 1695.

[1] It was created as a revised version of the 1664 play The Indian Queen, in a prologue and five acts, by John Dryden and his brother-in-law Sir Robert Howard.

His brother Daniel completed a masque for Act V.[4] The Indian Queen is one of Purcell's less often performed stage works.

The managers, struggling with discontented actors who were threatening to leave, and advised by Lord Chamberlain, a theater monitor, asked Sir Robert Howard to revise his earlier 1665 play with added music by Henry Purcell.

This caused the United Company to premiere the Indian Queen with ametuer actors, and to commission additional music from Purcell.

The semi-opera would premiere with some success, but other than a brief revival with added music by Purcell's brother, Daniel, would quickly be forgotten from regular production.

[citation needed] Stage design was done by American Artist Gronk drawing on Mayan markings.

About these responses Sellars said, “[the spectators] don’t understand that a work like this is about trying to complete a journey together through difficult issues and history.” [7] Some years before the Spanish Conquest in Mesoamerica—a war began between the Inca and the Aztecs.

Act I Montezuma, a young warrior, leads the Inca army in battle capturing Acais, the son of the mexican queen, Zempoalla.

For his success Montezuma asks for the hand of Orazia, the princess of the Inas but is refused by King Inca.

This troubles Zempoalla who seeks the aid and advice of Ismeron, a conjuror, the God of Dreams, and the spirits.