A Midsummer Night's Dream

Ballet: Work details

Choreographer: George Balanchine
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Music title: Overture and incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, op.21 & 61; Overtures to Athalie, op.74 (1845); The Fair Melusine, op.32 and Son and Stranger, op.89; The First Walpurgis Night, op.60; String Symphony no.9 in C major Swiss (1st, 2nd & 3rd movements)
Work definition: Ballet in two acts
World premiere: 17 January 1962, New York City Ballet, New York
ROH premiere: 8 August 2014, Mariinsky Ballet
Productions
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014) Mariinsky Ballet (3 performances online)