Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Glyndebourne)

Glyndebourne’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is pure magic. Brilliantly adapted from Shakespeare’s play, the opera follows the adventures of four lovers and a group of naïve 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 Peter 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.
Curt Appelgren (Bottom); James Bowman (Oberon); Felicity Lott (Helena); Damien Nash (Puck); Lieuwe Visser*(Theseus); *Ileana Cotrubasv (Tytania); *Cynthia Buchan (Hermia); Roger Bryson (Quince); Patrick Power (Flute); Ryland Davies (Lysander); Bernard Haitink
Stage Director: Sir Peter Hall
"The perfect Britten opera for this Sussex countryside setting" (The Times)
"Peter Hall’s 1981 Glyndebourne production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream has long been regarded by many as the definitive staging of the work." (The Guardian)
Recorded in 1983
Available on DVD
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