Benjamin Britten
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
New Production
June
2009: 06 (20:00), 09 (20:00), 11 (20:00), 13 (20:00), 15 (20:00), 17 (20:00)
The Opera
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Sung in English with electronic libretto in Italian, English
Running Time: 3 hours 10 minutes
New music for the fairies, the elves and the love spells with which Shakespeare charmed audiences. 260 years after Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, the greatest British composer of the 20th century paid homage to the Bard with one of his most beautiful operas. Robert Carsen’s fantastic staging highlights the opera’s dreamlike nature.
Conductor
Sir Andrew Davis
Staging
Robert Carsen
Sets and Costumes
Michael Levine
Lights
Davy Cunningham
Choreography
Matthew Bourne
Characters
Cast
Oberon
David Daniels
Tytania
Rosemary Joshua
Puck
Emil Wolk
Theseus
Daniel Okulitch
Hippolyta
Natascha Petrinsky
Lysander
Gordon Gietz
Demetrius
David Adam Moore
Hermia
Deanne Meek
Helena
Erin Wall
Bottom
Matthew Rose
Quince
Andrew Shore
Flute
Christopher Gillett
Snug
Graeme Danby
Snout
Adrian Thompson
Starveling
Simon Butteriss
Cobweb
Francesca Mercuriali
Peaseblossom
Elena Caccamo
Mustardseed
Barbara Massaro
Moth
Nicolò De Maestri
Production of the Festival of Aix-en-Provence and of the Opéra National de Lyon
