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) herself completely dominated by Oberon and Puck, the couple that are usually considered to really hold power in The Dream. Their cruel pranks eventually quell her coloratura, which until she is freed from the power of the love-juice is fiendishly difficult to sing. Britten also parodied operatic convention in less obvious ways than "Pyramus and Thisbe". Like many other operas, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" opens with a chorus, but it is a chorus of unbroken boys' voices, singing in unison. After this comes the entrance of the prima donna and the male lead, who is as far away as possible