Le Songe d’une Nuit d’Été @ Wexford Festival Opera
Le Songe d’une Nuit d’Été
Ambroise Thomas
The title may recall A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but the libretto of this opéra-comique plays in a much subtler way. Shakespeare here is one of the characters, together with Falstaff and Queen Elizabeth I.
The Opera
Le Songe d'une nuit d'été
Opera-comique in three acts
Libretto by Joseph-Bernard Rosier and Adolphe de Leuven
Music by Ambroise Thomas
First performance 20 April 1850, Opéra-Comique, Paris.
Sung in French with English surtitles
SEMI-STAGED PRODUCTION
The orchestra will be reduced to accommodate the COVID-19 safety requirements.
arranged by Andreas Luca Beraldo (*1988)
published by Cecilia Music Concept, Cologne