A Midsummer Night's Dream - A Midsummer Night's Dream

Participants

Lea Krüger / Yuxuan Wang, Verena Seyboldt / Sophie Hunold, Luzia Ernst / Debora Kapsner, Suji Choi / Seohee Kang, Miriam Stelzer / Rebekka Brühl, Wei Chieh Tai / Suijie Xie, Benedikt Heisinger / David Severin, Andy Haberer / David Rother, Tim Renkert, Johannes Blank, Markus Brock / Nikolaus Schönball, Sören Thiemann, Luis Denzel, Kolja Riechmann, Jingjing Ma, Elza Loginova, Leonor Figueiredo De Pereira, Anna Heinecke, Helena Müller, Aeneas Frisch and many other students from all vocal classes

Orchestra of the College of Music

Marius Stieghorst → Musical direction

Jacob Gröper, Hojun Kim → Musical assistants

Vincent Knüppe → Choir rehearsals

Alexander Schulin, Fabian Lüdicke, Monika Kälberer, Emma-Louise Jordan, Iris Melamed, Louis Vaillant, Eva Kirchner → scenic direction

Program

Libretto by Benjamin Britten and Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears based on the comedy (1595) by William Shakespeare

The opera "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is based on a popular and frequently performed comedy by William Shakespeare. It was written by the English composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) and premiered in 1960. The opera is about the wedding of a princely couple in ancient Athens and the goings-on in an adjacent, enchanted forest where fairies, elves and trolls rule. It is about great emotions between love and confusion, about jealousy and betrayal, about magic and battle - and about an amateur troupe that actually just wants to put on a play. The comic and tragic events that take place in the three days and nights around the summer solstice are told in three acts, including a weaver who is transformed into a donkey.

Students from all singing classes at the Freiburg College of Music perform together with the college orchestra.