A Midsummer Night's Dream

Opera

Writers: William Shakespeare Benjamin Britten Peter Pears

Songs

Act One

  • “Over Hill, Over Dale”
  • “Oberon Is Passing Fell and Wrath”
  • “Well, Go Thy Way”
  • “How Now My Love?”
  • “Be It on Lion, Bear, or Wolf, or Bull”
  • “Welcome Wanderer!”
  • “Is All Our Company Here?”
  • “Fair Love, You Faint with Wand’ring in the Wood”
  • “Through the Forest Have I Gone”
  • “Stay, Though Thou Kill Me, Sweet Demetrius”
  • “Come, Now a Roundel and a Fairy Song”
  • “You Spotted Snakes with Double Tongue”
  • “What Thou Seest When Thou Dost Wake”

Act Two

  • Introduction: The Wood
  • “Are We All Met?”
  • “I See Their Knavery”
  • “Be Kind and Courteous to This Gentleman”
  • “Hail, Mortal, Hail!”
  • “I Have a Reas’nable Good Ear in Music”
  • “How Now, Mad Spirit?”
  • “Flower of This Purple Dye”
  • “Puppet? Why So?”
  • “This Is Thy Negligence”
  • “Up and Down, Up and Down”
  • “On the Ground, Sleep Sound”

Act Three

  • “My Gentle Robin, See’st Thou This Sweet Sight”
  • “Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander!”
  • “When My Cue Comes, Call Me”
  • “Have You Sent to Bottom’s House?”
  • “Now, Fair Hippolyta”
  • “If We Offed, It Is with Our Good Will”
  • “Gentles, Perchance You Wonder at This Show”
  • “In This Same Interlude It Doth Befall”
  • “O Grim-Look’d Night, O Night with Hue So Black”
  • “O Wall, Full Often Hast Thou Heard My Moans”
  • “You Ladies, You Whose Gentle Hearts Do Fear”
  • “This Lanthorn Doth the Horned Moon Present”
  • “Sweet Moon, I Thank Thee for Thy Sunny Beams”
  • “Asleep, My Love?”
  • “Come, Your Bergomask”
  • “Now the Hungry Lion Roars”

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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