Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Who wrote the opera version of a midsummer night's dream?

i have to do a project for my opera class comparing shakespeare's play to the opera, but i can't find it because i don't know who wrote it? does any one know? please help my projecct is due in 2 weeks



Who wrote the opera version of a midsummer night's dream?ireland



Musical versions



Incidental music: An overture and incidental music for the play were composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1826 and were used in most stage versions through the nineteenth century. Mendelssohn also composed the ballet version as well (which contains the famous leaving of the church preformed at weddings around the world).



Opera: The play was adapted into an opera, with music by Benjamin Britten and libretto by Britten and Peter Pears. The opera was first performed on June 1, 1960, at Aldeburgh.



Semi-opera: The Fairy-Queen by Henry Purcell consists of a set of masques meant to go between acts of the play, as well as some minimal rewriting of the play to be current to 17th century audiences.



Who wrote the opera version of a midsummer night's dream?microsoft outlook internet explorer



Shakespeare
Benjamin Britten
Which opera? I am sure there are probably 20 different versions of it out there. After all, there are at least 3 different versions of his Play Othello and tons more of Hamlet.

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