Adelaide Festival
Adelaide Festival will present UK composer Benjamin Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a highlight of its 2021 program, with four performances at the Festival Theatre plus big-screen streamed events in Elder Park and regional areas.
Adelaide Festival
“Women endure” is the sad moral of this grim operatic story.
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