A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare

「真夏の夜の夢」妖精たちが踊っています。妖精の女王ティタニアと妖精の王オベロンが、チェンジリング少年を所有したいがために言い争います。（当時、妖精は人間の子供と妖精の子供の間で入れ替わると信じられていました。）オベロンは、ティタニア にいたずらすることにしました。いたずら好きのパックの助けを借りて、ティタニア に魔法をかけ、眠りから覚めた後、最初に見たものと恋に落ちるようにするのです。ティタニア が目を覚ますと、ロバに変えられたボトム（人間）を見て、すぐに恋に落ちてしまいます。魔法が解けたティタニアは、オベロンに同情し、チェンジリングした少年を手に入れることを承諾する。人間の恋人たちはめでたく結ばれ、ティタニア とオベロンも喧嘩をしなくなり、すべてがうまくいく。（English) Story: It is a midsummer night. Fairies are dancing. The Fairy Queen, Titania and Fairy King, Oberon, argue because they both want to possess the changeling boy. (At the time, it was believed that fairies switched between human and fairy children.) Oberon decides to play a trick on Titania. With the help of the mischievous Puck, a spell is put on Titania so that after she awakes from her sleep, she falls in love with the first thing she sees. As Titania wakes up, she sees Bottom (a human) turned into a donkey and immediately falls in love with him. When the spell is taken off Titania, she feels sorry for Oberon and agrees he can have the changeling boy. The human lovers happily unite, and all end well, as the human lovers are connected, and Titania and Oberon no longer quarrel. 

[Understanding A Midsummer Night's Dream] Shakespeare's Prank? Is a play not suitable for a wedding? <literature>

A)

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton to Mendelssohn's incidental music for the play A Midsummer Night's Dream.

It was first performed by the Royal Ballet in 1964. It was first performed by ABT (American Ballet Theatre) in 2002.

B)

It is based on Shakespeare's late 16th-century play A Midsummer Night's Dream. It consists of five acts in which nobles, artisans and woodland fairies appear in the forest near Athens.

Incidentally, the "Wedding March" from Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is, as the name suggests, often played and used as background music alone in connection with weddings and bridal parties.

C)

Synopsis

The wedding between Thesias (Theseus), Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, land of the Amazons, was imminent.

Hermia and Lysander, a young aristocrat, are in love, but Hermia's father, Egeus, wants her to marry a young man called Demetrius.

Hermia doesn't listen. So Egeus asks Theseus to put Hermia to death, according to the old law that "a daughter who disobeys her father shall be put to death".

D)

Marry Demetrius or be executed

Theseus hesitated; Theseus gave Hermia four days to think before his wedding. Theseus wants her to choose between marrying Demetrius or being put to death. Lysander and Hermia promise to sneak out at night and meet in the woods.

Hermia confides this to her friend Helena, who, in love with Demetrius, follows them into the woods.

Because Helena thinks that even Demetrius, who likes Hermia, would surely go to the forest.

E)

In the forest, the fairy king and queen fought.

Meanwhile, in the forest, Oberon, the king of the fairies, and his wife, Queen Titania, are quarrelling about a beautiful Indian boy. So Oberon, in a lousy mood, uses the Fairy Puck to smear an aphrodisiac made from flower juice on Titania's eyelids.

This aphrodisiac is a powerful one, created by Oberon's magic. The drug makes you fall in love with the first thing you see when you wake up.

F)

The fairy Puck spreads a love potion and turns a man's head into a donkey.

However, Puck also applies the aphrodisiac to Lysander and Demetrius as they sleep in the forest. Lysander and Demetrius fall in love with Helena because of the aphrodisiac, and their relationship goes wrong.

Puck also turns the head of Bottom, a craftsman who has come to the forest, into a donkey. When she wakes up, Titania falls in love with this strange creature.

G)

Everyone goes back to the way they were

Oberon felt sorry for Titania when the problem of the beautiful Indian boy was solved. After removing the donkey's head from Bottom's head and breaking the spell on Titania, the two reconcile.

The spell on Lysander is also lifted, and his relationship with Hermia is restored.

Meanwhile, Demetrius is courting Helena. Finally, he persuades Hermia's father, Egeus, to cancel his daughter's execution.

Now the two couples, the king and queen of the fairies, have settled into a harmonious relationship. The six craftsmen also put on a successful play at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta.

[Understanding A Midsummer Night's Dream] Shakespeare's Prank? Is a play not suitable for a wedding? <literature>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klktz8y8p2Y

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Wikipedia

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%8F%E3%81%AE%E5%A4%9C%E3%81%AE%E5%A4%A2

2017 Paris Opera Ballet - Midsummer Night's Dream Excerpts - Marchand Abbagnato Renavand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBf7Q6X2FmE

Excerpts from A Midsummer Night's Dream performed by the Paris Opera Ballet, 2017. Eleonora Abbagnato dances Titania, Hugo Marchand is Oberon, Alice Renavand dances Hippolyte & Emmanuel Thibault is Puck. For more credits, see the beginning of the video during the overture. The music is by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

Paris Opera Ballet: full 'Midsummer Night's Dream' Act II divertissement (Balanchine) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuptoWqHJlw

The beauty in the details of A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare's World Condensed in Mendelssohn's Overture 

https://ontomo-mag.com/article/column/shakespeare3-midsummer/

A Midsummer Night's Dream 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uu4HA5u23M

Midsummer Night's Dream - Stories for Teenagers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JBqz0qjGqU

Synopsis of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The man who should have eloped fell in love with his best friend!? 

https://ddnavi.com/serial/1120947/a/

A Midsummer Night's Dream ballet music 

https://www.worldfolksong.com/ballet/midsummer.htm

A Midsummer Night's Dream Synopsis 

https://rhinoos.xyz/archives/46017.html

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Britten – Royal Swedish Opera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2mcN97f-S4&t=24s

More or less frustrated, two pairs of young lovers flee into the woods to escape conventions and demands and find their true selves. But the forest is a place of freedom, fancy, dreams, nightmares, chaos, and folly. This is the domain of Oberon and his queen Titania, who are in the middle of a severe marital crisis that nature itself is in a state of imbalance.

Benjamin Britten transformed Shakespeare's play into an operatic libretto with his lifelong companion Peter Pears and wrote its beautiful, enchanting music. However, sorcery, entanglements and distorted perceptions of reality mean that everything is turned upside down for those seeking love in the woods. In Royal Swedish Opera's new production of Shakespeare's comic fantasy, a forest is more a psychological location than a physical one. Under the baton of Simon Crawford Phillips and the stage direction of Tobias Theorell, the merry tale is transformed into an exploration of the subconscious.