A Midsummer Night's Dream - Salzburg Marionette Theatre

Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes (break after the third act)
Play in five acts
Translation from English: Hinrich Horstkotte
Music: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Musical arrangement and composition: Franz-Josef Grümmer
Premiere: London, circa 1598
In German with explanations in English, French, Spanish

Content
The play is set in ancient Athens and in an enchanted forest adjacent to the city, where the fairy king Oberon and his wife Titania reign, and where elves and goblins frolic. The goblin Puck causes considerable confusion among the humans in the forest…

Cast
Direction and set design: Hinrich Horstkotte
Choreography: Peter Breuer
Sculptural works: Pierre Monnerat
Technical direction: 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

Further Information
Inboccallupo Orchestra Berlin
Conductor: Andreas Schüller
Fellows of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic
Conductor: Franz-Josef Grümmer
Recording for the Salzburg Marionette Theatre
Premiere: Salzburg, June 2, 2001
All puppets and the entire set were produced in the workshops of the Salzburg Marionette Theatre.