Details

A mournful moon, a cowardly lion, an unruly wall and two bumbling Roman lovers: Shakespeare's comic reworking - in A Midsummer Night's Dream - of Ovid's Pyramus and Thisbe story is one of the best-loved comic episodes in theatre. Set the ill-fated love story to Lampe's late Baroque music, parody the pomposity of the day's Italian Opera with all its divas, and the result is a scintillating early English comic opera full of musical and theatrical fireworks.

Cast/Performers

Jane Streeton, Mark Chaundy, David Heathcote, Colin Baldy

Creatives/Company

Music: John Fredrick Lampe
Company: Opera Restor'd (in association with Hand Made Opera)
Musical Director: Peter Holman
Director: Colin Baldy
Design(s): Ashley Shairpe, Andrea Mason