William Shakespeare/Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy A Midsummernight´s Dream

Music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy with additions by Bernhard Paumgartner

CREATIVE TEAM

Max Reinhardt, Director
Bernhard Paumgartner (06.08, 11.08, 20.08, 26.08, 27.08) Einar Nilson (09.08, 15.08, 21.08), Conductor
Oskar Strnad, Stage Sets
Ernest de Weerth, Costumes
Tilly Losch, Choreography
Robert Beck, Light
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy / edited by Bernhard Paumgartner, Music

CAST

Paul Hartmann, Theseus
Rosamond Pinchot, Hippolyta
Armand Zäpfel, Egeus
Maria Solveg, Hermia
Margarete Koeppke (06.08, 09.08, 11.08, 15.08, 20.08, 21.08), Hermia
Christa Tordy, Helena
Hans Thimig, Lysander
Hermann Thimig, Demetrius
Fritz Richard, Philostrate
Josef Danegger, Quince
Wilhelm Diegelmann, Snug (Lion)
Hans Moser, Bottom (Pyramus)
Heinz Rühmann, Flute (Thisbe)
Harald Kreutzberg (26.08)Richard Romanowsky (06.08, 15.08), Flute (Thisbe)
Max Brebek, Snout (Wall)
Wladimir Sokoloff, Starveling (Moon)
Erich Schilling (26.08), Starveling (Moon)
Luis Rainer, Oberon
Maria Solveg, Titania
Helene Thimig (26.08, 27.08), Titania
Katta Sterna, Puck
Harald Kreutzberg (09.08, 15.08, 21.08, 27.08)Wladimir Sokoloff (26.08), Puck
Tilly Losch, First Elve
Harald Kreutzberg, Ein Waldgeist
Katta Sterna (09.08, 15.08, 21.08, 26.08, 27.08), Ein Waldgeist
Melitta Halder, Birke
Melitta Halder, Lydia Turianski, Gertrud Dulnig, Lily Spitz, Gertha Heppner, Hilde Hoflehner, Elves
Travis Thames, Solo Voice

Women Choir of the Vienna State Opera
Vienna Philharmonic