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 / Shijie Xie, Benedikt Heisinger / David Severin, Andy Haberer / David Rother, Tim Renkert, Johannes Blank, Markus Brock / Nicolaus Schönball, Sören Thiemann, Luis Denzel, Kolja Riechmann, Jingjing Ma, Elza Loginova, Leonor de Pereira Pinto e Faria Figueiredo, 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 Kang → 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.