Aldeburgh Festival 1960: [premiere of A Midsummer Night's Dream by Britten] (1960-06-11)

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main performers:Owen Brannigan (operatic bass) (bass-baritone vocals [Bottom])
Edward Byles (tenor vocals [Snout])
April Cantelo (soprano) (soprano vocals [Helena])
Alfred Deller (countertenor) (countertenor vocals [Oberon])
Thomas Hemsley (baritone) (baritone vocals [Demetrius])
David Kelly (operatic bass) (bass vocals [Snug])
Norman Lumsden (bass vocals [Quince])
George Maran (American Tenor) (tenor vocals [Lysander])
Peter Pears (tenor) (tenor vocals [Flute])
Johanna Peters (Scottish mezzo-soprano) (contralto vocals [Hippolyta])
Forbes Robinson (operatic bass) (bass vocals [Theseus])
Marjorie Thomas (contralto) (mezzo-soprano vocals [Hermia])
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano) (soprano vocals [Tytania])
Joseph Ward (tenor) (baritone vocals [Starveling])
conductors:Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
part of:Aldeburgh Festival 1960 (1960-06-11 – 1960-06-26)
held at:Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
recording location for:A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “(Be it on Lion…)… I love thee not” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “Come, now a roundal, and a fairy song” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “Fair love, you faint with wand’ring” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “How now, my love?” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “Is all our company here?” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “Oberon is passing… Ill met by moonlight” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “Stay, tho’ thou kill me, sweet Demetrius” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “Through the forest I have gone” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “Welcome, wanderer!… I know a bank” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “Well, go thy way” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “What thou seest when thou sodt wake” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “You spotted snakes” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. Introduction… “Over hill, over dale” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “Are we all met?” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “Be kind and courteous” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “Flower ofthe purple dye” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “Hail, mortal, hail” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “How now, mad spirit” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “I have a reas’nable good ear in music” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “I see their knavery” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “On the ground, sleep sound” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “Puppet? Why so?” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “This is thy negligence” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “Up and down” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. Introduction by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “Asleep my Love? What, dead, my dove?” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “Come, your Bergomask” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “Have you sent to Bottom’s house?” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “Helena! ‐ Hermia!” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “If we offend it is with our good will” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “In this same interlude” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “Now the hungry lion roars” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “O grim‐look’d night” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “Orchestral march / “Now, fair Hippolyta” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “Sweet Moon, I thank the for thy sunny beams” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “This lanthorn dost the hornèd Moon present” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “When my cue comes, call me” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “You ladies, you” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. Introduction / “My gentle Robin” by The English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
premieres:A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64

Setlist

A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 64 (Benjamin Britten) (world premiere)