Britten at the Theatre Royal

I went to one other performance at the Bath Festival: Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream put on by English Touring Opera at the Theatre Royal. This production was well reviewed and I generally enjoyed it, although the Oberon and some other singers didn’t always come over very strongly. But I realise that somewhere along the line I don’t completely connect with Britten. In particular, I find his sense of humour rather heavy-handed, although I did have fun with the take-offs of other operas in the play-within-a-play in the final act. I wouldn’t let this put me off going to a performance of one of his operas another time (this was the first one I’d ever seen).