Name: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Start: 2021-09-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-10-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Organization

Singer

Countertenor

James Hall

Oberon

Soprano

Jane Archibald

Tytania

Spoken

Jami Reid-Quarrell

Puck

Tenor

Gideon Poppe

Lysander

Baritone

Dean Murphy

Demetrius

Mezzo-soprano

Karis Tucker

Hermia

Lexi Hutton

Helena

Bass

Padraic Rowan

Theseus

Davia Bouley

Hippolyta

Annika Schlicht

Bass-baritone

Patrick Guetti

Bottom

Tyler Zimmerman

Quince

Andrew Dickinson

Flute

Matthew Cossack

Starveling

Stage director

Ted Huffman

Conductor

Markus Stenz

Lighting designer

D.M. Wood

Costume designer

Annemarie Woods

Set designer

Marsha Ginsberg

Choreographer

Sam Pinkleton

Ran Arthur Braun

Chorus master

Christian Lindhorst

Barnaby Rea

Snug

Colin Judson

Snout

Matthew Peña

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Others

Kinderchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Children's Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

English

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Berlin

Germany

A Midsummer Night's Dream Britten

Public

German

Approved

Hardly any other work in world literature breathes music like William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Elves dance at night in the enchanted summer forest and sing the fairy queen Titania to sleep. Music accompanies the wedding celebrations of the royal couple Hippolyta and Theseus and the young lovers Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius – when they have finally found each other on Midsummer Night after an erotic round of desires and disappointments, confusion and confusion. And music is also heard in the crudely funny game in the game "Pyramus and Thisbe" - performed by six "highly talented" craftsmen.

A Midsummer Night's Dream has inspired musicians for centuries. As a consistently successful opera, however, the piece only came to the stage a good 360 years after its creation, with Britten's setting, which premiered in 1960. For this purpose, he adapted Shakespeare's original text and set it to music as a fairytale-like, light masterpiece that repeatedly plays with witty references to the history of opera.

It was staged by the young American director Ted Huffman, who, after a series of directing works in France, recently attracted attention in German-speaking countries with his productions of Handel's RINALDO in Frankfurt, MADAMA BUTTERFLY at the Zurich Opera House and SALOME at the Cologne Opera House.

A Midsummer Night's Dream by Britten, Thu 30 Sep 2021, From (2021/2021), Directed by Ted Huffman,, Conductor Markus Stenz, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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