Mixed Repertory Program



Metropolitan Opera House
New York, New York 


The Dream

Running Time: 52 minutes

Synopsis:
There is, perhaps, no happier ode to the illusory nature of love than Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Ashton's beguiling retelling of this comedy of errors is set in the magical woods of Victorian England to a spellbinding score by Felix Mendelssohn.

Choreography by: Sir Frederick Ashton
Staged by: Anthony Dowell with Christopher Carr
Music by: Felix Mendelssohn
Set by: David Walker
Costumes by: David Walker
Lighting by: John B. Reed