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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Following its hugely successful premiere in 2015, the Royal New Zealand Ballet is thrilled to be bringing A Midsummer Night’s Dream back for Christmas 2024.
Created for the RNZB by Liam Scarlett, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was an overnight sensation at its premiere, with capacity audiences throughout its first New Zealand tour, followed by successful performances in Hong Kong in 2016. Distinguished New Zealand designer Tracy Grant Lord created the glorious vision of Shakespeare’s iconic characters and enchanted wood, illuminated with lighting by Kendall Smith.
Don’t miss your chance to see this sparkling, spectacular ballet when it returns to Aotearoa – a wonderful treat for young and old, lovers of dance, music and sheer theatrical magic.
Single tickets on sale now.
Behind the scenes
» If you are going to do fairies there can be no holding back, so wunderkind English choreographer Liam Scarlett unashamedly mixes, in this sparkling new production, 110 per cent magic with a gorgeous design by Tracy Grant Lord, an intricately stitched up score of Mendelssohn's music, courtesy of Nigel Gaynor, and a lighting design from Kendall Smith that animates the whole like an ongoing shower of fabulous fairy dust. «
Bernadette Rae, New Zealand Herald, 2015
Credits
Choreography
Liam Scarlett
Music
Felix Mendelssohn
Music Arranger
Nigel Gaynor
Set & Costume Design
Tracy Grant Lord
Lighting Design
Kendall Smith
Conductor
Hamish McKeich
Orchestras
Orchestra Wellington, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia