A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Show Info Cast & Creative

Genre Opera/Dance

Venue

First Performance 19/05/2011

Closing 30/06/2011

Following its South Bank Show Award-winning productions of The Turn Of The Screw and Peter Grimes, English National Opera continues to refresh its Britten repertoire with a new staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Magically mixing 20th-century modernism, rich romanticism and quasi-Purcellian fantasy, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream score breathes a unique air all of its own, climaxing in a hilarious parody of Italian bel canto opera for the rude mechanicals’ play.

Mirroring the composer’s lifelong nostalgia for the lost innocence of childhood, Christopher Alden, the Laurence Olivier Award-winning director of Partenope and The Makropulos Case, transplants A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s moonlit world of woods and fairies to the hormonal hothouse of a 1960s school.

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Cast

Iestyn Davies, Willard White, Sarah Tynan, Allan Clayton, Benedict Nelson, Kate Valentine, Tamara Gura, Michael Colvin, Graeme Danby, Peter van Hulle, Simon Butteriss

Creative

Director - Christopher Alden

Producer - English National Opera in a co-production with K.S.Stanislavsky and Vl.I.Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre

Conductor - Leo Hussain

Lighting Designer - Adam Silverman

Set Designer - Charles Edwards

Music By - Benjamin Britten

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