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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes (intermission after the third act)
Play in five acts
Translation from English: Hinrich Horstkotte
Music: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Musical arrangement and composition: Franz-Josef Grümmer
First performance: London, ca. 1598
In German with explanations in English, French, Spanish
Abstract
The scene is an enchanted forest near ancient Athens, ruled by the fairy king Oberon and his queen Titania, and teeming with elves and sprites. The mischievous sprite Puck causes considerable confusion amongst the human beings in the forest …
Program and cast
Production and set design: Hinrich Horstkotte
Choreography: Peter Breuer
Sculptor: Pierre Monnerat
Technics: Alexander Proschek
Puppeteers: Philippe Brunner, Pierre Droin, Vladimir Fediakov, Edouard Funck, Heide Hölzl, Maximilian Kiener, Michaela Obermayr, Emanuel Paulus, Eva Wiener, Ursula Winzer
Speakers: Prodromos Antoniades, Monika Bujinski, Annette Dasch, Horst Eierharfe, Hinrich Horstkotte, Irmtraud Horstkotte, Julia Jentsch, Michael Kamp, Muriel König, Christoph Kottenkamp, Manuel Kressin, Markus Meyer, Ulrich Naudé, Max von Pufendorf, Nerupama Rathore, Max Ruhbaum, Michael Schrodt
Additional information
Inboccallupo-orchestra Berlin
Conductor: Andreas Schüller
Scholarship holders of the Orchesterakademie der Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Franz-Josef Grümmer
Recording for the Salzburg Marionette Theatre
Premiere: Salzburg, June 2, 2001
The puppets and the equipment were made in the workshops of the Salzburg Marionette Theatre.
Salzburg Marionette Theatre
In 1893, the old-established Kaltenhausen brewery built "a restaurant and function-rooms" in the Schwarzstrasse, between the Lasser Villa (now the Mozarteum) and the theatre. The architect was Carl Demel, the master builder Valentin Ceconi. In 1897 these function-rooms were converted to the Mirabell Hotel. After World War II the Mirabell Casino was the principal tenant until 1968. Conversion work began in 1970, in order to give the Marionette Theatre a new playhouse. The former dining-room of the Mirabell Hotel was converted into an auditorium with a stage, and its rich decoration of stucco and frescoes is still impressive. There was similar stucco-work, though not quite so opulent, in the foyer, but unfortunately in the course of the 1970/71 conversion it was covered by a plasterboard ceiling. The stucco ceiling underneath was forgotten, to be rediscovered in 2000 when repairs were being carried out. In 2003 the foyer was restored to its original condition.
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