A Midsummer Night's Dream at Komische Oper Berlin

Last season's surprise success is back on the programme for this season - Benjamin Britten’s Shakespeare classic with "enchantingly beautiful music and a surrealist streak" [Berliner Zeitung] and staging by Latvian opera director Viestur Kairish!

The tragi-comic drama about jealousy in the kingdom of the fairies, confused lovers, lust - and the frustration of being a great big donkey - leads us into the depths of our own souls. With the "suggestive, fairy-tale atmosphere and magical effects" [Der Tagesspiegel], the music almost makes us forget that it was, in the end, nothing more than a dream…