A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Reflections on Benjamin Britten’s Chamber Opera

Anna Stegh Camati

doi:10.15448/1984-7726.2020.1.33796

Authors

Anna Stegh Camati Centro Universitário Campos de Andrade (Uniandrade), Curitiba, Paraná http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2460-1006

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2020.1.33796

Keywords:

Shakespeare, Benjamin Britten, Peter Hall, Adaptação, Intermidialidade.

Abstract

Opera performances, located at the intersection of literature, theater, music and the visual arts, tend to fuse specificities of several art forms. This essay reflects on the libretto and score of the chamber opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1960), by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), based on Shakespeare’s homonymous text (1595-1596), and analyses the 1981 operatic adaptation at Glyndebourne, directed by the renowned theatre director and régisseur Peter Hall (1930-2017). The intermedial dialogues among Shakespeare, Britten and Hall will be investigated in the light of theoretical perspectives by Linda and Michael Hutcheon, Claus Clüver, Jorge Coli, Freda Chapple and others.

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