A Midsummer Night’s Dream podcast

Glyndebourne-Opera by Glyndebourne-Opera

Mar 30, 201600:20:32Arts

Darkness is never far beneath the enchanted surface in Benjamin Britten’s version of William Shakespeare’s comedy. In this podcast Julie Sanders Professor of English at Newcastle and Professor Mervyn Cooke of the Univers...

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