Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare and Felix Mendelssohn provide the perfect fusion of language and music in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A particularly famous part of this score includes Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March,” which has heralded the marriage of countless couples, though this exuberant Romantic work deserves to be heard in its fuller context. A small cast of singers and actors join the orchestra onstage to bring this famous comedy to life, from the mischievous Puck and elegant fairy court to the bewildered human lovers and fools! The orchestra also performs Mendelssohn’s beautiful Three Motets for upper voices, inspired by the nuns of Rome’s Trinità dei Monti.