A Midsummer Night's Dream

Mirroring the lifelong nostalgia of the opera's composer, Benjamin Britten, for the lost innocence of childhood, director Christopher Alden transplants Shakespeare's moonlit world of woods and fairies to the hormonal hothouse of a 1960s school. With the countertenor Iestyn Davies as Oberon and soprano Anna Christie as his Tytania; the cast also features the great bass-baritone Sir Willard White as Bottom. Leo Hussain conducts.