A Midsummer Night's Dream

In an enchanted wood outside Athens, two pairs of young lovers flee the city and become entangled in the feuds of the fairy kingdom. Oberon, King of the Fairies, dispatches the mischievous Puck to use a magic flower's juice to manipulate hearts, but the spell goes comically awry. Meanwhile, a troupe of bumbling tradesmen rehearse a play-within-a-play. Britten's luminous operatic setting of Shakespeare's comedy transforms the forest into a shimmering dreamscape of countertenor magic and orchestral enchantment.