A Midsummer Night's Dream " orchestral manoeuvres in the park
Garsington Opera at Wormsley, StokenchurchThis production of Shakespeare's play, complete with a live backing of Mendelssohn's score, is as brilliant as it is rare In the 19th century, well-appointed theatres could commission incidental music on a grand scale. When King Frederick William IV of Prussia asked Felix Mendelssohn to supply music for a production of Shakespeare's comedy at Potsdam in 1842, a substantial or…