Beguiling Britten: GSMD's A Midsummer Night's Dream

By Francesca Vella, 01 March 2012

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Reviewed at Barbican Theatre, London on 28 February 2012

Britten, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Stephen Barlow, Conductor

Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director

Guildhall School Musicians

Tom Verney, Oberon

Ellie Laugharne, Tytania

Stuart Laing, Lysander

Kathryn McAdam, Hermia

Ashley Riches, Demetrius

Sky Ingram, Helena

Barnaby Rea, Bottom

Alexander Knox, Puck

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Francesca Vella

Francesca is a PhD student at KCL, where she is researching Verdi reception in late nineteenth-century Milan. Besides being interested in cultural history and the history of Italian opera, she loves the classical and romantic piano and chamber music repertoire.