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A midsummer night's dream
Title
A midsummer night's dream / Benjamin Britten.
Publication
[New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1996]
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 audio file (2 hr., 30 min., 52 sec.))
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Duration: 2 hr., 30 min., 52 sec.
Recorded live in 1996 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
Sung in English.
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Summary
Shakespeare's enchanting tale is set to some of Benjamin Britten's most atmospheric music, with a libretto taken entirely from the text of the play. Countertenor Jochen Kowalski is Oberon, King of the Fairies, and Sylvia McNair sings his queen, Tytania. The ensemble cast also includes Nick Stahl as Puck, Nancy Gustafson as Helena, Jane Bunnell as Hermia, Kurt Streit as Lysander, and Rodney Gilfrey as Demetrius.
Variant and related titles
Met opera on demand OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 20, 2024
Performers
Sylvia McNair ; Nancy Gustafson ; Jane Bunnell ; Jochen Kowalski ; Kurt Streit ; Rodney Gilfry ; Peter Rose ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; David Atherton, conductor.
Contents
Introduction: The wood ; Deepening twilight/Over hill, over dale, thorough bush, thorough briar
Oberon is passing fell and wrath
Well, go thy way
How now my love?
Be it on Lion, Bear or Wolf or Bull
Welcome wanderer! I know a bank where the wild thyme blows
Is all our company here?
Fair love, you faint with wand'ring in the wood
Through the forest have I gone
Stay tho' thou kill me, sweet Demetrius
Come, come, now a roundel and a fairy song
You spotted snakes with double tongue
What thou seest when thou dost wake
The wood (Tytania lying asleep)
Are we all met?
I see their knavery
Be kind and courteous to this gentleman
Hail, mortal, hail!
Ah, ah, I have a reasonable good ear in music
How now mad spirit
Flower of this purple dye
Puppet? Why so?
This is thy negligence
Up and down, up and down
On the ground, sleep sound
My gentle Robin
Helena!
Hermia!
Demetrius!
Lysander!
When my cue comes, call me
Have you sent to Bottom's house?
Quick march
Now, fair Hippolyta
If we offend, it is with our good will
Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show
O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans
This is old Ninny's tomb
Come, your Bergomask
Now, the hungry lion roars
Now until the break of day.
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