A Midsummer Night's Dream

ETO’s hugely successful 2004 production of the Britten/Shakespeare masterpiece 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.

Visually spectacular, Joanna Parker’s design (complete with Jacobean costumes) and James Conway’s production celebrates the best of English music and theatre. Michael Rosewell conduct’s Britten’s eerie, highly theatrical score, and Jonathan Peter Kenny, Andrew Slater and David Gooderson (best known as the original Dr Who Davros) reprise the roles of Oberon, Bottom and Puck.

***** Hike miles to see this...ETO’s staging of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is wonderful beyond words. A corker of a show from a tip-top team. - The Independent.