A Midsummer Night's Dream: Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Haitink) DVD (2004)

Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Haitink) Leading Actor: Peter Hall Region: Region 2 Duration: 156 mins Format: DVD / NTSC Version Type: DVD No. of Discs: 1 disc(s) Studio / Publisher: Warner Music Entertainment UK Release Date: 02 Aug 2004 Edition: NTSC Version

Glyndebourne's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is pure magic. Brilliantly adapted from Shakespeare's play, the opera follows the adventures of four lovers and a group of naïve rustics who, in a wood on a moonstruck midsummer night, fall foul of Oberon and Tytania, the quarrelling king and queen of the fairies. In Peter Hall's remarkable staging, the very wood comes alive as logs and trees move and rustle, creating ambiguous silhouettes in the dark mysterious woodland, lit only by designer John Bury's wonderful rising sun and moon.