A Midsummer Night's Dream the pieces from the incidental music is the famous "Wedding March", frequently used as a recessional in weddings. The choreographer Marius Petipa, more famous for his collaborations with Tchaikovsky (on the ballets "Swan Lake" and "The Sleeping Beauty") made another ballet adaptation for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg with additional music and adaptations to Mendelssohn's score by Léon Minkus. The revival premiered 14 July 1876. English choreographer Frederick Ashton also created a 40-minute ballet version of the play, retitled to "The Dream". George Balanchine was another to create a "Midsummer Night's Dream" ballet based on the play, using Mendelssohn's
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959 film) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959 film) A Midsummer Night's Dream () is a 1959 Czechoslovak animated puppet film directed by Jiří Trnka. It is based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. Trnka, working under the Czech communist regime who had previously been denied in his wish to adapt "Don Quixote", worked for several years on his adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The film established a new pinnacle of craftmanship: Cerise Howard, discussing the film in a retrospective on Trnka for "Senses of Cinema", describes the puppet animation as "more liquid, more balletic than ever"; the scenes between