Glyndebourne's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is pure magic. Brilliantly adapted ... more
from Shakespeare's play, the opera follows the adventures of four lovers and a group of naive rustics who, in a wood on a moonstruck midsummer night, fall foul of Oberon and Tytania, the quarrelling king and queen of the fairies. In Hall's remarkable staging the very wood comes alive as logs and trees move and rustle, creating ambiguous silhouettes in the dark mysterious woodland, lit only by designer John Bury's wonderful rising sun and moon.
Advantages: Funnier than other Shekaspeare plays Disadvantages: The language is hard to understand.
In the play 'A MidsummerNight's Dream' by William Shakespeare, there are three different sets of characters and I am going to be discussing the theme of love and marriage and how each set is affected by this.
The first set of characters within the play are the lords and ladies which consists of four main characters who are all affected by love in different ways.
To begin with, Demetrius is being forced to wed Hermia by her father, Egeus. Hermia does not like this as she has loved Lysander forwhatseems as an eternity in their eyes.
Helena, the one who loves Demetrius, is always pestering him to take her back but he doesn't love her so therefore, he intends to marry Hermia. When Hermia and Lysander decide to run away however, all sorts of adventures take place and create a very enjoyable play within the human's story.
However ...
Advantages: Very Funny and Entertaining Disadvantages: Confusing at times
A MidsummerNight’s Dream
“…the most insipid and ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life.”
Samuel Pepys (1662)
Is this comment about ‘A MidsummerNightsDream’ an accurate judgement on the reaction of the audience to the play, or do you believe its themes and characters are relevant and important?
The play ‘A MidsummerNightsDream’ involves four lovers running into the woods to escape an overpowering father and the duke of Athens. It also features a group of men named “the mechanicals” who are constructing a play named “Pyramus and Thisbe” which will be performed at the wedding of the duke of Athens’s, Theseus and his bride, Hippolyta, once Queen of the Amazons. All of these events are followed by the fairies, in the mysterious woods outside ...
Advantages: Funnier than other Shakespeare plays. Disadvantages: The language is hard to understand.
A MidsummerNight's Dream
In the play 'A MidsummerNight's Dream' by William Shakespeare, there are three different sets of characters and I am going to be discussing the theme of love and marriage and how each set is affected by this.
The first set of characters within the play are the lords and ladies which consists of four main characters who are all affected by love in different ways.
To begin with, Demetrius is being forced to wed Hermia by her father, Egeus. Hermia does not like this as she has loved Lysander forwhatseems as an eternity in their eyes.
Helena, the one who loves Demetrius, is always pestering him to take her back but he doesn't love her so therefore, he intends to marry Hermia. When Hermia and Lysander decide to run away however, all sorts of adventures take place and create a very enjoyable play within ...
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Title
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Composer
(Edward) Benjamin (Lord Britten of Aldeburgh) Britten (1913 - 1976)
Main Performer
Brian Asawa (Alto); Brian Bannatyne-Scott (Bass); Carl Ferguson (Speaker); Claudia Conway (Soprano); David Newman (Treble/boy soprano)
Orchestra / Ensemble(s)
New London Children's Choir; London Symphony Orchestra
Date of Release
12/1996
Label / Distributor
Philips / Universal Manufacturing and Logistics
Pieces in Set
2
Running Time
2 hours 28 minutes
Genre(s)
Stage works
Producer
Ursula Singer
SPAR Code
DDD
EAN
28945412221
Catalogue Number
454
Work 1
Work Title
(A) Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64
Excerpt(s)
1. ACT 3 - Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander! 2. Bottom's Dream 3. Asleep, my love 4. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows
Composer
(Edward) Benjamin (Lord Britten of Aldeburgh) Britten (1913 - 1976)
Genre
Stage works
Date Written
1960
Date Recorded
1995
Conductor
Colin Davis
Orchestra / Ensemble
London Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra / Ensemble
New London Children's Choir
Main Performer
Brian Asawa (Alto), Brian Bannatyne-Scott (Bass), Carl Ferguson (Speaker), Claudia Conway (Soprano), David Newman (Treble/boy soprano), Gwynne Howell (Bass), Hilary Summers (Contralto (Female alto)), Ian Bostridge (Tenor), Janice Watson (Soprano), John Mark Ainsley (Tenor), Mark Tucker (Tenor), Matthew Long (Treble/boy soprano), Neal Davies (Baritone), Paul Whelan (Baritone), Robert Lloyd (Bass), Ruby Philogene (Mezzo soprano), Sara Rey (Soprano), Stephen Richardson (Bass), Sylvia McNair (Soprano)
Opera Part(s)
Brian Asawa (Oberon), Brian Bannatyne-Scott (Theseus), Carl Ferguson (Puck), Claudia Conway (Peaseblossom), David Newman (Cobweb), Gwynne Howell (Quince), Hilary Summers (Hippolyta), Ian Bostridge (Flute), Janice Watson (Helena), John Mark Ainsley (Lysander), Mark Tucker (Snout), Matthew Long (Moth), Neal Davies (Starveling), Paul Whelan (Demetrius), Robert Lloyd (Bottom), Ruby Philogene (Hermia), Sara Rey (Mustardseed), Stephen Richardson (Snug), Sylvia McNair (Tytania)
Location of Work Recording
Barbican Centre, London
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