A Midsummer Night's Dream; Collegium Vocale Gent/Herreweghe; Actus Tragicus – review

Coliseum; St John's, Smith Square; Royal College of Music, all LondonMess with Britten at your peril. You can guarantee the claque will be out, cat-calling, waving handbags and crying "the horror" as if civilisation had yielded to the barbarians. At least some of the above was the case when Christopher Alden and his production team for English National Opera's gripping, abrasive new A Midsummer Night's Dream took their bow on last Thursday's opening night. Boos fought with cheers in a playground...

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