Opera in three parts, in English, with Hungarian surtitles

British music is often faulted for having failed to produce a significant composer for three hundred years after Purcell.

If ever a later composer felt it incumbent on himself to look back into England’s past and write a piece based on the work of its most world-famous artistic genius, Shakespeare, it was Benjamin Britten, the first musical talent to be accepted into the international canon after such a long time.

With its two dozen soloists and instrumental accompaniment of nearly the same size, A Midsummer Night’s Dream verges on chamber opera. Benjamin Britten’s production is only staged in Hungary quite rarely.

Place: Eiffel Art Studios Budapest

Address: 1101 Budapest, Kőbányai út 30.