On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Trevor Allen wrote:
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> Okay....I did a little searching and found out that
> the opera runs approximately 2 and half hours. If
> anyone knows it well enough, are the any places that
> could be chopped out and still have the opera make
> sense?
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM isn't supposed to make sense. :)
I wonder - aside from cutting out one of the funniest bits of slapstick
comedy Shakespeare ever wrote - whether the "Pyramus and Thisbe" scene is
really crucial, if your concern is maintaining plot coherence. I'm saying
this based on Shakespeare's play - I'm frankly not as familiar with
Britten's opera as I should be, so I don't know how much time this scene
takes up in the opera.
KM
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