A Midsummer Night's Dream
Author(s):
Music by Benjamin Britten, text by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears after William Shakespeare
Company:
Royal Swedish Opera
Running time:
3h 10min approx
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.
