A Midsummer Night's Dream
Premiere
Opera
Cast | 02.10.2019
| Conductor | Simone Young |
| Director | Irina Brook |
| Set design | Noëlle Ginefri-Corbel |
| Costumes | Magali Castellan |
| Lighting | Jean Kalman |
| Choreography | Martin Buczko |
| Assistant Director | Sophie Petit |
| Assistant set designer | Loriana Casagrande |
| Petra Schnakenberg | |
| Assistant costume designer | Irène Bernaud |
| Oberon | Lawrence Zazzo |
| Titania | Erin Morley |
| Puck | Théo Touvet |
| Theseus | Peter Kellner |
| Hippolyta | Szilvia Vörös |
| Lysander | Josh Lovell |
| Demetrius | Rafael Fingerlos |
| Hermia | Rachel Frenkel |
| Helena | Valentina Naforniţa |
| Bottom/Zettel | Peter Rose |
| Flute/Flaut | Benjamin Hulett |
Details
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was the inspiration for works in all genres. Amongst others, Henry Purcell, Ambroise Thomas, Carl Maria von Weber and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy wrote widely differing music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and visual artists, choreographers and film-makers were also inspired by the complex story. In 1960, with his A Midsummer Night’s Dream Benjamin Britten published one of the best known opera versions: an amusing, light, poetic and psychological masterpiece that is one of his most played works of music theatre. Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was first heard at the opera house on the Ring in 1962; now, after more than half a century, the opera house is producing the work again.
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was the inspiration for works in all genres. Amongst others, Henry Purcell, Ambroise Thomas, Carl Maria von Weber and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy wrote widely differing music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and visual artists, choreographers and film-makers were also inspired by the complex story. In 1960, with his A Midsummer Night’s Dream Benjamin Britten published one of the best known opera versions: an amusing, light, poetic and psychological masterpiece that is one of his most played works of music theatre. Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was first heard at the opera house on the Ring in 1962; now, after more than half a century, the opera house is producing the work again.