A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn) of the score were used in Woody Allen's 1982 film "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy". Many of the tunes in the score were used by John Stepan Zamecnik for the dogfight music in the film Wings in 1927. A distinctive portion of the tune was used in the second episode of the ABC TV documentary "Keating: The Interviews", where Kerry O'Brien chronicles the life and career of legendary Australian politician Paul Keating. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn) At two separate times, Felix Mendelssohn composed music for William Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream". First in 1826, near the start of
A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera) and powers of mimicry, and suddenly realised we could do Puck this way." There are many recordings available, including two conducted by the composer, one a live recording of the 11 June 1960 premiere with the complete original cast, the second a studio recording made in 1967 with some of the original cast, Deller as Oberon, Owen Brannigan as Bottom, and Peter Pears elevated from Flute to Lysander, which omits some music from the lovers' awakening early in act 3. A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera) A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and