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Manacorda / Britten "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

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Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears used Shakespeare’s famous text almost verbatim, the composer creating a score of suitably magical potency, and this fairy-tale opera became one of his most successful works. The allocation of the voices is unusual: Oberon is a countertenor, Titania a coloratura soprano — the king and queen of the fairies move in the very highest dimensions. Britten found a characteristic musical language for each of the magical and human spheres. Furthermore, in his composition he is always mindful of his famous predecessors who had written music for Shakespeare’s comedy: Henry Purcell, Carl Maria von Weber and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. There is also a kind of history of opera hidden in the score. This comes to the fore in highly amusing fashion with the artisans’ performance in Act III: Britten presents Pyramus and Thisbe as a parody of Italian opera.

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Antonello Manacorda 
Dirigent 
Damiano Michieletto 
Inszenierung 
Bejun Mehta 
 Oberon
Daniela Fally 
 Tytania
Maresi Riegner 
 Puck
Güneş Gürle 
 Theseus
Ann-Beth Solvang 
 Hippolyta
Rupert Charlesworth 
 Lysander
Tobias Greenhalgh 
 Demetrius
Natalia Kawałek 
 Hermia
Mirella Hagen 
 Helena
Tareq Nazmi 
 Nick Bottom
Lukas Jakobski 
 Peter Quince
Michael Laurenz 
 Francis Flute
Dumitru Mădăraşăn 
 Snug
Andrew Owens 
 Tom Snout
Kristján Jóhannesson 
 Robin Starveling
St. Florianer Sängerknaben
Kinderchor 
Wiener Symphoniker

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Benjamin Britten

"A Midsummer Night's Dream", Oper in drei Akten op. 64

"A Midsummer Night's Dream", Oper in drei Akten op. 64
1960
144min
Komponist:Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976) Details

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Theater an der Wien