A Midsummer Night's Dream
English Touring Opera
Sat 15 May 2010 7.30pm
Theatre £20 (£18), £23 (£21), £27 (£25) - Save 15% when booking for 2 or more operas
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CloseETO’s hugely successful production returns. In a fairy-haunted wood, lovers’ knots are tangled, and strange dreams create monstrous romances.
Only in a hilarious play performed by working men are all the opera’s tensions and enchantments eased. Michael Rosewell conducts Britten’s eerie, highly theatrical score, with a cast led by Jonathan Peter Kenny and Andrew Slater.
Sung in English
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Seating up to 550, audiences are assured of an excellent view of the stage and comfortable seating in this well-designed auditorium. The theatre stages the best national and international plays and performances, as well as contemporary and international dance, music and comedians.
1 Comment
Congratulations on staging "Midsummer Night's Dream" at Warwick recently.
I'd like to point out a couple of difficulties for the audience. First, the orchestra drowns out the singers at times. Second, many of the words are inaudible, so the detail of the plot evaporates - I'm afraid this point applies to Oberon in particular.
It's easy to solve the first issue of course by listening to the balance from various places in
the auditorium.
The second issue would be greatly eased by the avoidance of vibrato - a technique which destroys words, and is probably unnecessary in most theatres. Unfortunately these issues are common to most opera
performances. There were similar problems with the Pegasus Opera's recent performance of Joplin's "Treemonisha" at Cheltenham.
Despite the above (!), thanks for staging the performance and I hope you enjoy good audiences at the other venues.
Peter Teague.
Peter Teague at 8:53am on Sat 29th May 2010