The play was adapted into an opera, with music by Benjamin Britten and libretto by Britten and Peter Pears. This was first performed on 11 June 1960 at Aldeburgh. [90] Director Harley Granville-Barker introduced in 1914 a less spectacular way of staging the Dream: he reduced the size of the cast and used Elizabethan folk music instead of Mendelssohn. He replaced large, complex sets with a simple system of patterned curtains. He portrayed the fairies as golden robotic insectoid creatures based on Cambodian idols. His simpler, sparer staging significantly influenced subsequent productions. [ citation needed] The first-person narrative follows a girl named Summer Tanberry, who dreams of going to ballet school and is willing to sacrifice everything, to make that dream come true. She soon becomes anorexic.

Barnes, Clive (18 April 1967). "Midsummer Night's Dream: Balanchine Helps Turn Classic into Film". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522 . Retrieved 31 March 2017. Charles, Gerard (2000). "A Midsummer Night's Dream". BalletMet. Archived from the original on 1 May 2011 . Retrieved 29 January 2010.Daring - she runs away with Lysander even though the possible consequences are death or life as a nun. Unpredictable – long ago, he was in love with Helena. Then he fancied Hermia. Then he woke up and realised that he had been in love with Helena all along… with a little help from fairy magic. The next scrumptious story in Cathy Cassidy's Chocolate Box Girls series, following Cherry Crush and Marshmallow Skye . Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson. Summer has always dreamed of dancing, and when a place at ballet school comes up, she wants it so badly it hurts. Middle school ends and the holidays begin, but unlike her sisters, Summer has no time for lazy days and sunny beach parties. The audition becomes her obsession, and things start spiralling out of control...The more Summer tries to find perfection, the more lost she becomes. Will she realise -- with the help of the boy who wants more than friendship -- that dreams come in all shapes and sizes? Third must-have title in this gorgeous series from one of the UK's best-loved girls' authors, Cathy Cassidy. Each sister has a different story to tell, which one will be your favourite? Cathy Cassidy was voted Queen of Teen in 2010 -- beating Jacqueline Wilson and Louise Rennison to the throne. Praise for Cathy's books: Touching, tender and unforgettable . ( Guardian ). Cathy Cassidy wrote her first picture book for her little brother when she was eight or nine and has been writing fabulous stories ever since. The Chocolate Box Girls is a sumptuous series starring sassy sisters, super-cool boys and one of Cathy's biggest loves -- chocolate. Cathy lives in Scotland with her family Alfie Anderson - Summer's secret admirer and her enemy since a long time. Alfie has a crush on Summer, but she doesn't notice him. Later to become Summer's boyfriend

Evans, G. Blakemore; Tobin, J. J. M., eds. (1997). "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The Riverside Shakespeare. Vol.1 (2nd, illustrateded.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp.256–83. ISBN 978-0-395-85822-6. Romantic – he promises to marry Hermia in secret if she will run away with him. He offers to kill Demetrius for Helena if she wants him to. Let me guess - Athens! He’s Theseus, Duke of Athens. He’s getting married. Everybody’s got wedding fever. Like rabies. Ask Hermia. Her Dad is like ‘marry Demetrius’, or die, and she’s like, ‘Yeah, as if!’. She thinks Demetrius is a jerk. And she loves Lysander. Whereas her best pal Helena loves Demetrius, but he ain’t interested! What a mess! Oh Shakespeare! You so understand!In Ancient Greece, long before the creation of the Christian celebrations of St. John's Day, the summer solstice was marked by Adonia, a festival to mourn the death of Adonis, the devoted mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite. According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, Aphrodite took the orphaned infant Adonis to the underworld to be raised by Persephone. He grew to be a beautiful young man, and when Aphrodite returned to retrieve him, Persephone did not want to let him go. Zeus settled the dispute by giving Adonis one-third of the year with Persephone, one-third of the year with Aphrodite, and the remaining third where he chose. Adonis chose to spend two-thirds of the year with his paramour, Aphrodite. He bled to death in his lover's arms after being gored by a boar. Mythology has various stories attributing the colour of certain flowers to staining by the blood of Adonis or Aphrodite. Hunt, Maurice (1986). "Individuation in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" ". South Central Review. The South Central Modern Language Association. 3 (2): 1–13. doi: 10.2307/3189362. eISSN 1549-3377. ISSN 0743-6831. JSTOR 3189362. In 1887, Denton Jacques Snider argued that the play should be read as a dialectic, either between understanding and imagination or between prose and poetry. He also viewed the play as representing three phases or movements. The first is the Real World of the play, which represents reason. The second is the Fairy World, an ideal world which represents imagination and the supernatural. The third is their representation in art, where the action is self-reflective. Snider viewed Titania and her caprice as solely to blame for her marital strife with Oberon. She therefore deserves punishment, and Oberon is a dutiful husband who provides her with one. For failing to live in peace with Oberon and her kind, Titania is sentenced to fall in love with a human. And this human, unlike Oberon is a "horrid brute". [39] A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) was written and directed by Woody Allen. The plot is loosely based on Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, with some elements from Shakespeare's play. [101] John Neumeier created his full-length ballet Ein Sommernachtstraum for his company at the Hamburg State Opera (Hamburgische Staatsoper) in 1977. Longer than Ashton's or Balanchine's earlier versions, Neumeier's version includes other music by Mendelssohn along with the Midsummer Night's Dream music, as well as music from the modern composer György Ligeti, and jaunty barrel organ music. Neumeier devotes the three sharply differing musical styles to the three character groups, with the aristocrats and nobles dancing to Mendelssohn, the fairies to Ligeti, and the rustics or mechanicals to the barrel organ. [98]

Peikert, Mark (2 March 2019). "Be More Chill's Stephanie Hsu Is Not Underestimating Teenagers". Playbill . Retrieved 8 April 2021. Aelfric • Annette • Arval • Ashe • Balthus • Bernadetta • Byleth • Caspar • Catherine • Claude • Constance • Cornelia • Cyril • Death Knight • Dedue • Dimitri • Dorothea • Edelgard • Felix • Ferdinand • Flame Emperor • Flayn • Gatekeeper • Hapi • Hilda • Holst • Hubert • Ignatz • Ingrid • Jeralt • Kronya • Leonie • Linhardt • Lorenz • Lysithea • Manuela • Marianne • Mercedes • Monica • Nemesis • Petra • Raphael • Rhea • Seiros • Seteth • Shamir • Shez • Solon • Sothis • Sylvain • Yuri Presenter: He’s handled the constant change in tactics really well, but just look at his face, it’s not attractive. Alm • Atlas • Berkut • Boey • Brigand Boss • Catria • Celica • Clair • Clive • Conrad • Deen • Delthea • Duma • Faye • Fernand • Forsyth • Genny • Gray • Hestia • Kamui • Kliff • Leon • Lukas • Luthier • Mae • Marla • Mathilda • Mila • Mycen • Palla • Python • Rinea • Rudolf • Saber • Silque • Sonya • Tatiana • Tobin • Valbar • ZekeBetween 1917 and 1939 Carl Orff also wrote incidental music for a German version of the play, Ein Sommernachtstraum (performed in 1939). Given that Mendelssohn's parents had been Jews (and despite the fact that they converted to Lutheranism), his music had been banned by the Nazi regime, and the Nazi cultural officials put out a call for new music for the play: Orff was one of the musicians who responded. He later reworked the music for a final version, completed in 1964. [ citation needed]