Otto Klemperer - Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream

O­­tto Klemperer was very much a man of the theatre. "Here, opera and drama were truly united," he said of his time at Berlin's Kroll Theatre, a progressive and influential force in the heady years of the Weimar Republic. He was also a man with a sharp sense of humor: this performance of Mendelssohn's incidental music to Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" both glows with enchantment and sparkles with wit. Featuring Heather Harper, soprano and Janet Baker, alto, with the Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus. Original cover artwork: Designs by Carl Toms for an Old Vic Production of a Midsummer Night's Dream (1961).

 

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