Erich Wolfgang Korngold
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT DREAM
Composed between 1934 and 1935

 
Lyrics by
Directed by
Written by
Performed by
World Premiere

Max Reinhardt


New York and London , 9 October 1935

 

Celina Lindsley (Titania)
Michelle Breedt (Fairy)
Scot Weir (Demetrius and Lysander)
Michael Burt (Oberon)
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Gerd Albrecht
CD: CPO 999 449-2
[59:58]
     
Original 1935 "Roadshow Version"
[Overture, Intermission, Exit music]
William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt , directors
"A Dream Comes True' (1936)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, piano
DVD: Warner Home Video Archives D53100
James Cagney (Bottom, le tisserand)
Joe E. Brown (Flûte)
Dick Powell (Lysander, amoureux d'Hermia)
Mickey Rooney (Puck, une fée)
Victor Jory (Oberon, le Roi des fées)
Ross Alexander, Billy Barty, Hobart Cavanaugh, Hugh Herbert, Ian Hunter,
Frank McHugh, Grant Mitchell, Jean Muir, Dewey Robinson, Verree Teasdale,
Olivia de Havilland