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A Midsummer Night's Dream

Opera

Writers: William Shakespeare Benjamin Britten Peter Pears

Songs

Act One

  • “Over Hill, Over Daleâ€�
  • “Oberon Is Passing Fell and Wrathâ€�
  • “Well, Go Thy Wayâ€�
  • “How Now My Love?â€�
  • “Be It on Lion, Bear, or Wolf, or Bullâ€�
  • “Welcome Wanderer!â€�
  • “Is All Our Company Here?â€�
  • “Fair Love, You Faint with Wand’ring in the Woodâ€�
  • “Through the Forest Have I Goneâ€�
  • “Stay, Though Thou Kill Me, Sweet Demetriusâ€�
  • “Come, Now a Roundel and a Fairy Songâ€�
  • “You Spotted Snakes with Double Tongueâ€�
  • “What Thou Seest When Thou Dost Wakeâ€�

Act Two

  • Introduction: The Wood
  • “Are We All Met?â€�
  • “I See Their Knaveryâ€�
  • “Hail, Mortal, Hail!â€�
  • “I Have a Reas’nable Good Ear in Musicâ€�
  • “How Now, Mad Spirit?â€�
  • “Flower of This Purple Dyeâ€�
  • “Puppet? Why So?â€�
  • “This Is Thy Negligenceâ€�
  • “Up and Down, Up and Downâ€�
  • “On the Ground, Sleep Soundâ€�

Act Three

  • “My Gentle Robin, See’st Thou This Sweet Sightâ€�
  • “Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander!â€�
  • “Have You Sent to Bottom’s House?â€�
  • “Now, Fair Hippolytaâ€�
  • “If We Offed, It Is with Our Good Willâ€�
  • “Gentles, Perchance You Wonder at This Showâ€�
  • “In This Same Interlude It Doth Befallâ€�
  • “O Grim-Look’d Night, O Night with Hue So Blackâ€�
  • “O Wall, Full Often Hast Thou Heard My Moansâ€�
  • “You Ladies, You Whose Gentle Hearts Do Fearâ€�
  • “This Lanthorn Doth the Horned Moon Presentâ€�
  • “Sweet Moon, I Thank Thee for Thy Sunny Beamsâ€�
  • “Asleep, My Love?â€�
  • “Come, Your Bergomaskâ€�
  • “Now the Hungry Lion Roarsâ€�

A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.


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