A Midsummer Night's Dream - RSO

Synopsis

Two pairs of young lovers, more or less frustrated, flee into the woods to escape conventions and demands and to find their true selves. But the forest is a place not only of freedom, fancy and dreams but also nightmares, chaos and folly. This is the domain of Oberon and his queen Titania, who are in the middle of a marital crisis so serious that nature itself is in a state of imbalance. With his lifelong companion Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten transformed Shakespeare’s play into an operatic libretto and wrote its beautiful, enchanting music. Sorcery, entanglements and distorted perceptions of reality mean that everything is turned upside down for those seeking love in the woods. In Royal Swedish Opera’s new production of Shakespeare’s comic fantasy, a forest is more a psychological location than a physical one. Under the baton of Simon Crawford Phillips and stage direction of Tobias Theorell, the merry tale is transformed into an exploration of the subconscious.

Main Cast

Rodrigo Sosa Dal Pozzo

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Elin Rombo

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Robert Fux

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Peter Kajlinger

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Johan Rydh

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Conductor	Simon Crawford Phillips
	Music	Benjamin Britten
Directing	Director	Tobias Theorell
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