A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the 19th Beijing Music Festival (2016)
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Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music,
A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera)
…A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was premiered on 11 June…
Britten in 1965
Britten's birthplace in Lowestoft, which was the Britten family home for more than twenty years
Frank Bridge, Britten's teacher (photographed in 1921)
Early influences, clockwise from top left: Mahler, Ireland, Shostakovich, Stravinsky