Verano

UN SUEÑO DE UNA NOCHE DE VERANO

Personajes

OBERÓN
TITANIA
COBWEB
PEASEBLOSSOM
MUSTARDSEED
MOTH
TESEO
HIPÓLITA
HERMIA
LISANDRO
DEMETRIO
ELENA
BOTTOM
QUINCE
FLUTE
SNUG
SNOUTSTARVELING
PUCK Rey de las Hadas
Reina de las Hadas
Hada al Servicio de Titania
Hada al Servicio de Titania
Hada al Servicio de Titania
Hada al Servicio de Titania
Duque de Atenas
Reina de lasAmazonas
Enamorada de Lisandro
Enamorado de Hermia
Enamorado de Hermia
Enamorada de Demetrio
Un Tejedor
Un Carpintero
Un Apañador de Fuelles
Un Ebanista
Un Calderero
Un Sastre
Un DuendeTenor
Soprano
Soprano
Soprano
Soprano
Soprano
Barítono
Mezzosoprano
Mezzosoprano
Tenor
Barítono
Soprano
Bajo
Bajo
Tenor
Bajo
Tenor
Tenor
Personaje Hablado


ACT I


Introduction(The wood. Deepening twilight.)

(Enter Fairies, first group with
Cobweb and Mustardseed, second
group with Peaseblossom and
Moth.)

FAIRIES
Over hill, over dale,
trough bush, throughbrier,
over park, over pale,
through flood, through fire,
we do wander everywhere,
swifter than the moon's sphere;
and we serve the fairy queen,
to dew her orbs upon the green.

FOUR SOLO FAIRIESCowslips tall her pensioners be
in their gold coats spots you see;
those be rubies, fairy favours,
in those freckles live their savours.

ALL FAIRIES
We must go seek
some dewdrops here
andhang a pearl
in every cowslip's ear

(Puck appears suddenly.)

PUCK
(calling):
How now spirits?

(The Fairies scatter to the side.)

FAIRIES
Or I mistake your shape
and making quite,or are you not that shrewd
and knavish sprite
call'd Robin Goodfellow:
are not you he that frights
the maidens of the villagery,
skim milk, and sometimes
labour in the quern
and bootlessmake
the breathless housewife churn;
and sometime make
the drink to bear no barm;
mislead night-wanderers,
laughing at their harm?
You do their work,
and they shall have good luck:
Those...