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Your search criteria were: Database searched-aria Opera-A Midsummer Night%27s Dream Range Function-not used Voice Part-All Language-All "Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake." -W. H. Auden View All Quotes

I am your spaniel
      from Act I of the English opera, A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten
      Libretto : Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, after the play by Shakespeare

• Role : Helena, in love with Demetrius
• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Setting : the wood at twilight, near Athens, Greece
• Range : E4 to G5. Tessitura : E4 to E5
• Synopsis : Helena is desperately pursuing the man she loves, Demetrius, into the woods. Demetrius does not return the affection and is, in fact, chasing after Hermia, who has run away with her love Lysander. In an attempt to attract Demetrius's attentions in some way, Helena tells him that the more he treats her like a dog, the more faithful she will be to him.
• Sound file : none
• Translation and/or Aria Text : none
• Recordings : Complete Opera 
• Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474, Catalog : #VSB0. Buy complete score online at Sheet Music Plus.

Be kind and courteous
      from Act II of the English opera, A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten
      Libretto : Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, after the play by Shakespeare

• Role : Tytania, the Queen of the Fairies
• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric coloratura
• Setting : the wood at twilight, near Athens, Greece
• Range : E4 to C6. Tessitura : G4 to G5
• Synopsis : Unbeknownst to her, Puck has used a flower on Tytania in her sleep that causes her to love the next creature she sees when she wakes up. Tytania is awakened by the sound of Bottom the weaver singing loudly. Puck has given him the head of an ass in place of his normal head. Regardless, Tytania falls in love with him immediately. She tells her fairy attendants to feed and take care of Bottom and eventually bring him to Tytania's bed.
• Sound file : none
• Translation and/or Aria Text : none
• Recordings : Complete Opera 
• Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474, Catalog : #VSB0. Buy complete score online at Sheet Music Plus.

Injurious Hermia
      from Act II of the English opera, A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten
      Libretto : Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, after the play by Shakespeare

• Role : Helena, in love with Demetrius
• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Setting : the wood at twilight, near Athens, Greece
• Range : E4 to A6. Tessitura : F4 to E5
• Synopsis : Both Demetrius and Lysander have been interested in Hermia instead of Helena. Suddenly, however, they both fall in love with Helena because of the magic flower that Oberon uses upon them. Suspicious of this sudden change of heart, Helena believes that Hermia is behind some plot to embarrass her. Angrily, Helena asks Hermia if the friendship between them that has lasted since childhood is now forgotten.
• Sound file : none
• Translation and/or Aria Text : none
• Recordings : Complete Opera 
• Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474, Catalog : #VSB0. Buy complete score online at Sheet Music Plus.

When my cue comes, call me
      from Act III, Scene 1 of the English opera, A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten
      Libretto : Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, after the play by Shakespeare

• Role : Bottom, a weaver
• Voice Part : bass-baritone   Fach : lyric bass
• Setting : the wood in the morning, near Athens, Greece
• Range : B3 to F4. Tessitura : D3 to C4
• Synopsis : Bottom awakens in the bed of Tytania and wonders where he is. He calls for his friends but they do not answer. Looking around, he remembers hazily spending the night with Tytania, the Queen of Fairies. However, he does not remember if it was real or just a fabulous dream.
• Sound file : none
• Translation and/or Aria Text : none
• Recordings : Complete Opera 
• Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474, Catalog : #VSB0. Buy complete score online at Sheet Music Plus.