A Midsummer Night's Dream by Britten, From (2023/2023), Directed by Tobias Theorell,, Conductor Simon Crawford-Phillips, Folkets Hus och Parker, Stockholm, Sweden

Having difficulties making it to Stockholm? No problems. From September 30 you can experience the smash hit opera A Midsummer Night's Dream in a broadcast from The Royal Swedish Opera to cinemas throughout Sweden – thanks to our partnership with Folkets Hus och Parker. Sorcery, entanglements and distorted perceptions of reality mean that everything is turned upside down for those seeking love in the woods. A forest that is more a psychological location than a physical one, in this contemporary interpretation of Shakespeare’s immortal comic fantasy. Together with his lifelong companion, Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten shortened Shakespeare’s text to form an operatic libretto, and wrote beautiful, dreamy music for it. Under the direction of Tobias Theorell, the merry tale is transformed into an exploration of the subconscious.