“Midsummer’s Night is a time of magic mixed with love, madness, terror, and fantasies. Shakespeare was writing of nothing strange. One should expect to find the world out of kilter, the night full of strange happenings, and expectations of romance going awry, just as one should expect to find them all put right on the dawn of the following day when the King and Queen of the Fairies have reconciled the quarrels that have so upset the world beneath their feet, and ‘all this derision shall seem a dream and fruitless vision’”. ~ Colin Graham, Opera Director
In 1984, William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream reawakened on our Eric Harvie Theatre stage with a twist. The production was adapted by English composer and conductor Benjamin Britten as an opera in three acts, bringing a new dimension to this Elizabethan Era classic.