A Midsummer Night’s Dream: reflections on Benjamin Britten’s Chamber Opera = Sonho de uma noite de verão: reflexões sobre a ópera de câmara de Benjamin Britten = El sueño de una noche de verano: reflexiones sobre la ópera de cámara de Benjamin Britten by Camati, Anna Stegh

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Shakespeare Re-Read, Re-Written, Re-Contextualised Or... Re-Placed in Opera and Musical by Bottez Alina

“…Gender is reread in Bellini‘s I Capuleti e i Montecchi and in Britten‘s A Midsummer Night‟s Dream, and religion - in Gounod‘s Roméo et Juliette and Bernstein‘s West Side Story. …”
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Parody as re-use and parody as laughing: three exemplary cases of forgery in the musical theatre by Elisabetta Fava

“…This second use presupposes that the listener recognizes the parodic reference and knows the parodied object; it frequently occurres in the musical theatre, particularly in the comic opera: three interesting examples are in Verdi's Falstaff (parody of liturgy), Cornelius' Barbier von Bagdad(parody of belcanto) and Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream (parody on the parody). …”
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Sull’uso dell’arpa nella «scena fantastica» di Shakespeare: il «sogno» musicale di Britten by Robles, Alessandra

“… This work aims at delineating the musical and dramaturgical concepts of «fantastic scene» both in Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream and in the homonymous opera with music by the English composer Britten, thanks to a particular instrument, that is the harp. …”
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Le Songe d’une nuit d’été de Benjamin Britten : Nouvel éclairage scénique de l’héritage shakespearien by Maéna Py

“…Benjamin Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream was composed and first performed in 1960, at a time when the performing arts were undergoing massive changes. …”
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