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Stage director

Brigitte Fassbaender

Conductor

Geoffrey Paterson

Costume designer

Anna-Sophie Lienbacher

Set designer

Christoph Fischer

Singer

Countertenor

Cameron Shahbazi

Oberon

Soprano

Kateryna Kasper

Tytania

Spoken

Frank Albrecht

Puck

Tenor

Michael Porter

Lysander

Baritone

Danylo Matviienko

Demetrius

Monika Buczkowska

Helena

Bass

Thomas Faulkner

Theseus

Mezzo-soprano

Zanda Švēde

Hippolyta

Bass-baritone

Barnaby Rea

Bottom

Magnús Baldvinsson

Quince

Brian Michael Moore

Flute

Gabriel Rollinson

Snug

Theo Lebow

Snout

Lighting designer

Jan Hartmann

Dramaturge

Deborah Einspieler

Chorus master

Álvaro Corral Matute

Tamara Gura

Hermia

Jonathan Macker

Starveling

Oper Frankfurt

Orchestra

Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

English

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Frankfurt am Main

Germany

Bockenheimer Depot

A Midsummer Night's Dream Britten

Public

German

Approved

In diesem Video sehen Sie den Einführungsvortrag von Dramaturgin Deborah Einspieler zu Benjamin Brittens Oper »A Midsummer Night's Dream«, die am 11. Mai in der Inszenierung von Brigitte Fassbaender und unter der musikalischen Leitung von Geoffrey Paterson im Bockenheimer Depot Premiere feiert.

Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dreamhad already experienced numerous settings when Benjamin Britten and his partner, the tenor Peter Pears, wrote the opera for the Aldeburgh Festival, which he founded. The two are based closely on the literary model, but shorten the original five-act comedy to three acts. The opera was actually written for a chamber orchestra, but after Britten recognized the opportunity to depict the different worlds of mythical creatures, lovers and craftsmen in the material, he expanded the score for a larger orchestra. The result is a colorful composition, which shapes the fairy world with harp glissandi, xylophone and celesta in addition to Oberon's countertenor voice, Titania's coloratura and Puck's spoken words. 

In the magic forest you are no longer green. Jealousy and marital disputes reign over a young Indian prince between Oberon and Titania. Oberon seeks revenge and assigns Puck to get him the magic juice that makes men and women fall in love with any creature that one sees after awakening. The forest is a magical place of constant transformation: the weaver Bottom, who is rehearsing a play for the wedding of the ducal couple with his friends, is transformed into a donkey, with which the elf queen Titania falls in love. And then Puck accidentally sprinkles the false eyelids of the sleeping lovers with the nectar of the magic flower, causing a chaos of emotions. In the early morning the beautiful haunted house, the summer dream, is over and a new day dawns.

A Midsummer Night's Dream by Britten, From (2022/2022), Directed by Brigitte Fassbaender,, Conductor Geoffrey Paterson, Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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