A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Britten | A Midsummer Night's Dream
Aldeburgh Festival
Direction/Design/Costume/Video Netia Jones
Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth
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"A Midsummer Night's Dream took us into an enchanted Suffolk wood and, with artless simplicity, cast spells "
Guardian
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"nigh-on flawless."
Stage
Best Opera of 2017
Stage
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"Netia Jones has found a visual language in tune with Britten's music"
Times
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"In her new production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Netia Jones takes us deep into the canopied groves of Oberon's forest, luring us into the nocturnal embrace of the wood with a heady 'physick' of disorientating visual charms "
Opera Today
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"Fairy spotlights flash through a dappled argent backdrop as top-hatted fairies, sporting Andy Warhol-like blonde hair and tiny round sunglasses, streak across the stage. Rustling leaves, shot through with shafts of sunlight, place us in a woodland where danger lurks"
Bachtrack