Pacific Opera Victoria: Midsummer Night's Dream

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Thursday, April 14th, 2016

In English with English surtitles

Hand in hand, with fairy grace, Will we sing, and bless this place.

A spat between the king and queen of fairies spills into the human realm, creating a tangle of misdirected spells and misplaced love affairs. Sweethearts fall in and out of love with neither rhyme or reason, bumbling rustics try their hands at amateur theatricals with side-splitting results, and the fairies spread accidental chaos far and wide. Nothing is what it seems in this enchanting collision of worlds, as fairies, countryfolk, and moonstruck young lovers spin through a single magical night.

With Shakespeare's language and Britten's tone painting, this edgy fantasy is at once ethereal and hilariously down to earth.

Tickets at:

https://www.rmts.bc.ca/events/midsummer-nights-dream-2016-royal-theatre