A Midsummer Night's Dream inspired by the play, that was first performed in 1827. In 1842, partly because of the fame of the overture, and partly because his employer King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia liked the incidental music that Mendelssohn had written for other plays that had been staged at the palace in German translation, Mendelssohn was commissioned to write incidental music for a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" that was to be staged in 1843 in Potsdam. He incorporated the existing Overture into the incidental music, which was used in most stage versions through the 19th century. The best known of
RSC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970) Weatherall, percussion Tony Mcvey, percussion Edward Flower, guitar Musicians 1973 Robin Weatherall, percussion and trumpet Tony Mcvey, percussion and trombone John Zaradin, guitar Royal Shakespeare Company programs 1970, 1971, 1973 RSC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970) The 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream was directed by Peter Brook, and is often known simply as Peter Brook's Dream." It opened in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon and then moved to the Aldwych Theatre in London's West End in 1971. It was taken on a world tour in 1972–1973. Brook's production of "A Midsummer