A Midsummer Night's Dream - Radio Broadcast

design by Felix Sanchez

Davies	Claycomb	Rose
Summers	Armfield

Supported in part through the
Margaret Alkek Williams General Director Chair Fund

Guarantor
The Methodist Center for
Performing Arts Medicine

The Britten Series is supported in part by
The Britten Estate

Co-production of Houston Grand Opera and Canadian Opera Company

Rose photo by Clive Barda

All’s well that ends well in Shakespeare’s comedy of supernatural error. Britten’s otherworldly score beckons the listener into a surreal realm where dreams become reality and life is as a dream.

The king and queen of the fairies are feuding, two mortal couples break up and make up thanks (or no thanks!) to the juice of a magic flower, and the Duke of Athens is getting ready to wed the Queen of the Amazons—there’s a whole lot going on in the forest just outside Athens! Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, based on Shakespeare’s play, is performed by a superb ensemble cast led by Houston favorite Laura Claycomb and Welsh countertenor Iestyn Davies in his company debut; Patrick Summers conducts.

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Listen to the Front Row interview with Laura Claycomb and Iestyn Davies

Colin Ure interviews Director Neil Armfield