Overview

A special, fully-staged production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with Mendelssohn’s complete incidental music, broadcast on air, online and via red button. Director Tim Carroll introduces the production in conversation with Louise Fryer. The Ladies’ Choir of the Enlightenment and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment are conducted by Charles Hazlewood.

Top Cast

Martin Turner

Theseus / Oberon

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Melanie Jessop

Hippolyta / Titania

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James Garnon

Puck (Robin Goodfellow)

Alex Hassell

Lysander / Francis Flute

Catherine Bailey

Helena / Snug

Daniel Rigby

Demetrius / Robin Starveling

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Elena Pavli

Hermia / First fairy / Peter Quince

James Garnon

Tom Snout

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John Paul Connolly

Nick Bottom / Egeus