Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Leads: Florence Kasumba, Robert Lindsay, Harry Jarvis, Tamzin Merchant
Director: Sacha Bennett
Production Company: Parkhouse Pictures
Writer: William Shakespeare, Hal Fowler
Year: 2022

Synopsis: This modern reimagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream brings Shakespe...

Type: Ballet
Company: The Czech National Ballet
Soloists: Nikola Marova, Ondrej Vinklat
Choreographer: Vaclav Zahradnik
Orchestra: The Prague State Opera Orchestra
Conductor: Sergej Poluektov
Venue: State Opera House, Prague
Year: 2015

Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet is a vivid and emotionally char...

Type: Documentary
Director: Ken McCullen
Cast: Ian McKellen, Connie Nielson, Lambert Wilson
Year: 2022

Ian McKellen's performance in the documentary Hamlet Within is anything but boring. The film offers a modern-day interpretation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, exploring the young prince's psyche as h...

Type: Orchestra
Conductor: Laurence Equilbey
Location: Royal Albert Hall
Pianist: Alexei Volodin
Year: 2018

This performance of Songe(s) d’une nuit d’été (Songs of a Midsummer Night’s Dream) offers a captivating fusion of Mendelssohn’s iconic music with a visual and thematic reimagining of Sh...

Type: Orchestra
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Location: Waldbuhne Amphitheatre, Germany
Year: 2014

Charismatic Latin American conductor Gustavo Dudamel returns to Berlin for this summer concert. The Philharmonic Orchestra performs end-of-season pieces, including Tchaikovsky’s “The Tempest” Sympho...

Type: Opera
Company: Vox Luminis
Composer: Henry Purcell
Venue: Concertgebouw Brugge, Brussels
Conductor: Lionel Meunier
Year: 2022

Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen is semi chamber music, semi performance art. It shimmers with baroque splendor in this sharp performance by Vox Luminis. Loosely ins...

Type: Italian Opera Favorites
Location: Waldbuhne Amphitheater, Germany
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Soloists: Angela Gheorghiu, Sergei Larin, and Bryn Terfel
Composer: Verdi, Bellini, and Rossini
Year: 1996

An iconic summer concert at Berlin’s monumental Waldbuhn...

Type: Opera
Orchestra: German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Jochen Rieder
Artists: Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier
Location: Festpielhaus Baden-Baden, Germany
Year: 2023

Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier delivered an electrifying evening of operatic drama, performing some of Verdi and P...