A Midsummer Night's Dream is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's music to Shakespeare's play of the same name.
Edwin Landseer, Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Titania and Bottom, 1851
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bruce Wells
On two occasions, Felix Mendelssohn composed music for William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. First in 1826, near the start of his career, he wrote a concert overture. Later, in 1842, f
A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)
…A Midsummer Night's Dream is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's music to Shakespeare's play of the same name. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Balanchine's first completely original full-length ballet, premiered at New York…
Beginning of the "Wedding March"
Portrait of Mendelssohn by James Warren Childe, 1839
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