Adelaide Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
After months of missing out on so much extraordinary live performance, it’s a thrill to be announcing the centrepiece opera for the 2021 Adelaide Festival:
Benjamin Britten’s
Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
Fri 26 Feb, 7pm
Sun 28 Feb, 4.30pm
Tue 2 Mar, 6pm
Wed 3 Mar, 6pm
Get ready to be taken to an enchanted forest and follow the misadventures of fairies, lovers, and craftsmen in this glorious adaptation of Shakespeare’s most beloved play.
“A fantastical soundworld that envelopes you in its glittering magic.” Stage Door
We’re so excited to have secured some of the world’s greatest artists to stage this magical production directed by Neil Armfield. Australia’s own Daniel Carter(Deutsche Oper Berlin) returns to conduct the Adelaide Symphony Orchestrawith an exceptional cast led by rising star, American counter tenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen as Oberon, joined by Rachelle Durkin as Tytania, Teddy Tahu Rhodes as Theseus, Warwick Fyfe as Bottom and our wonderful Young Adelaide Voices children’s choir.
“Inspired singing and hilarity … a triumph” Chicago Classical Review
We’ve endured a year like no other. Seize the chance to laugh and gasp with other human beings, to feel the air vibrate with the shimmering sounds of string and wood, metal and breath.
We can’t wait to see you there!
| Let’s be Friends
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is currently on pre-sale for Friends of Adelaide Festival only, who receive a host of great benefits including a 15% discount on applicable tickets. Tickets will be on sale to general public on 19 November, when the full AF21 program will also be announced. |
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