Felix Mendelssohn Melusine (Die schöne Melusine)" (1830). A contemporary writer considered these works as "perhaps the most beautiful overtures that, so far, we Germans possess". Mendelssohn also wrote in 1839 an overture to "Ruy Blas", commissioned for a charity performance of Victor Hugo's drama (which the composer hated) His incidental music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Op. 61), including the well-known Wedding March, was written in 1843, seventeen years after the Overture. The Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (1844), was written for Ferdinand David. David, who had worked closely with Mendelssohn during the piece's preparation, gave the premiere of the
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2017 film) the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2017, where it received positive reviews. The film was acquired for a theatrical release by Brainstorm Media and will screen at Landmark Theatres nationwide in the summer of 2018. The film received further critical acclaim upon its theatrical opening. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, it holds an approval rating of 77%, based on 13 reviews with an average rating of 6.4/10. Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". A Midsummer Night's Dream (2017 film) A Midsummer Night's Dream (stylized