A special, fully-staged production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with Mendelssohn’s complete incidental music, broadcast on air, online and via red button. Director Tim Carroll introduces the production in conversation with Louise Fryer. The Ladies’ Choir of the Enlightenment and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment are conducted by Charles Hazlewood.
Theseus / Oberon
Hippolyta / Titania
Puck (Robin Goodfellow)
Lysander / Francis Flute
Helena / Snug
Demetrius / Robin Starveling
Hermia / First fairy / Peter Quince
Tom Snout
Nick Bottom / Egeus