The musical show A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Ghione Theater is a concert that intertwines poetry, theater, and imagination. The music in fact, becomes the vehicle for a journey through the pages of great literature, transformed into soundscapes.
The program opens with the enchantment of Felix Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, where the fairytale atmosphere and Elizabethan lightness come to life in one of the most famous symphonic masterpieces inspired by William Shakespeare.
This is followed by Ambroise Thomas's tragic and introspective Hamlet, in which the tormented figure of the Danish prince is translated into a musical drama, suspended between fate and madness. The concert's core continues with two lieder masterpieces by Franz Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade, which gives voice to the amorous anguish of Goethe's character, and Nacht und Träume, an ethereal, nocturnal vision of desire.
Finally, the show offers the visionary virtuosity of Camille Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre, an ironic and macabre dance of death inspired by a medieval legend.
Program:
– A Midsummer Night's Dream by F. Mendelssohn
– from Hamlet by A. Thomas, Ophelia’s Aria “Adieu, dit-il, avez foi!”
– “Gretchen am Spinnrade” and “Nacht und Träume” by F. Schubert
– Danse Macabre by C. Saint-Saëns
Photo: official poster of the event
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