King Alonso sails home for Itally with his entourage ... The play ends with all the plotters repenting the Tempest is calmed.

and Alonso now wakes as well…and queries the ... Listen to the extract from 'Miranda falls asleep', from Music for The Tempest. The music is by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, composed 1925-1926.

The Tempest starts off with a huge storm that wrecks the ship of Alonso, the king of Naples. Soon after, we find out that the storm was in fact set off by Prospero, a magician who happens to be a ...

On one side the courtiers have been washed up - Alonso, Antonio, Sebastian and Gonzalo - and they're bickering about who's in charge. Alonso - who lent his army to Antonio to overthrow Prospero ...

He is no longer Prospero the magician. Alonso begs forgiveness - which is given - while mourning the loss of his son, Ferdinand. Then Ferdinand and Miranda appear arm in arm, with Prospero's ...

Almost immediately Antonio is up to his tricks, trying to persuade Sebastian to make himself king by killing Alonso while he sleeps. Sebastian suggests that such and act would actually make ...

NARRATOR: Down in the jungle King Alonso and the courtiers have given up hopeof finding Ferdinand. Most of them are moping. Antonio and Sebastianare plotting murder - again - big surprise.