Event listing: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Garsington Opera and Royal Shakespeare Company | Garsington Opera | Event is in the past

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Garsington OperaThe Wormsley Estate, High Wycombe, South-East, HP14 3YE, United Kingdom

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Programme

Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)	A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture, Op.21
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)	A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61 (Incidental Music)
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)	A Midsummer Night's Dream

Performers

Royal Shakespeare Company
Douglas Boyd	Conductor
Owen Horsley	Director
Rosanna Vize	Set Designer
The Gascoigne Orchestra
Anna Sideris	Soprano
Catherine Backhouse	Mezzo-soprano
Oliver Johnstone	Actor	Puck
Forbes Masson	Actor	Bottom
Joan Iyiola	Actor	Hermia
Hedydd Dylan	Actor	Helena
Simon Manyonda	Actor	Demetrius
Marty Cruickshank	Actor	Titania/ Hippolyta
David Rintoul	Actor	Oberon/ Theseus

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Garsington's Dream devoid of magic

Mark Pullinger, 17th July

Garsington’s first collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company married an abridgement of Shakespeare’s play with Mendelssohn’s incidental music, a union which promised much but which stumbled awkwardly.

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