Of Music and Midsummer, Part II

Mendelssohn’s music was also adapted into a ballet. (I was going to say that Shakespeare probably hadn’t imagined any of his works being performed by something so strange as men in tights when I remembered that he himself probably wore tights, too.)  I thought the fairies’ wardrobe interpretation in this clip was interesting—like they were trying to recreate them from Romantic paintings. (See Joseph Noel Paton’s painting of Act II, scene i and you’ll know what I mean.)