TRAILER | A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Britten - Royal Swedish Opera

Two pairs of young lovers, more or less frustrated, flee into the woods to escape conventions and demands and to find their true selves. But the forest is a place not only of freedom, fancy and dreams but also nightmares, chaos and folly. This is the domain of Oberon and his queen Titania, who are in the middle of a marital crisis so serious that nature itself is in a state of imbalance.
With his lifelong companion Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten transformed Shakespeare’s play into an operatic libretto and wrote its beautiful, enchanting music. Sorcery, entanglements and distorted perceptions of reality mean that everything is turned upside down for those seeking love in the woods. In Royal Swedish Opera’s new production of Shakespeare’s comic fantasy, a forest is more a psychological location than a physical one. Under the baton of Simon Crawford Phillips and stage direction of Tobias Theorell, the merry tale is transformed into an exploration of the subconscious.
Streamed on OperaVision on 12 May 2023 at 19:00 CET and available until 12 November 2023: operavision.eu...
CAST
Oberon
Rodrigo Sosa Dal Pozzo
Titania
Elin Rombo
Puck
Robert Fux
Bottom
Peter Kajlinger
Quince
Johan Rydh
Snug
Thorvald Bergström
Starveling
Jan Sörberg
Snout
Mikael Stenbaek
Flute
Michael Axelsson
Theseus
Kristian Flor
Hippolyta
Katarina Leoson
Hermia
Johanna Rudström
Helena
Vivianne Holmberg
Lysander
Jihan Shin
Demetrius
David Risberg
Cobweb
Anna Danielsson
Mustardseed
Therese Badman Stenius
Peaseblossom
Hanna Wåhlin
Moth
Katarina Böhm
Chorus
Royal Swedish Opera Chorus
Orchestra
Royal Swedish Orchestra
Music
Benjamin Britten
Text
Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
after William Shakespeare
Conductor
Simon Crawford Phillips
Director
Tobias Theorell
Sets
Lars-Åke Thessman
Costumes
Magdalena Åberg
Lighting
Torben Lendorph
Choreography
Joakim Stephenson
Dramaturg
Katarina Aronsson
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