{"id":18901,"date":"2024-05-09T22:01:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T21:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=18901"},"modified":"2024-11-01T21:07:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T20:07:35","slug":"daily_3366_-_alexander_ekman_midsommarnattsdrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/05\/09\/daily_3366_-_alexander_ekman_midsommarnattsdrom\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3366 &#8211; <i>Midsommarnattsdr\u00f6m<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We saw Alexander Ekman&#8217;s <i>Midsommarnattsdr\u00f6m<\/i> (&#8220;A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream&#8221;) at the Royal Opera during its first run, which must have been in 2015 or 2016. Now it&#8217;s back, and we saw it again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3366_ballet_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad that the Opera is willing to invest in a show with such a large cast. (I counted 40+ people on the stage.) The mass scenes would not have had the same impact with, say, half the number of dancers. Forty people marching, chest to back, makes an impression. Forty people streaming back and forth fills the scene, Twenty people doing the same thing would be puny.<\/p>\n<p>During the interval, dancers were performing in the Golden Foyer of the opera house, seated on three-metre-tall chairs. Mostly a gimmick, and while there were people taking photos, I didn&#8217;t see anyone pay them real attention for any longer time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3366_ballet_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw Alexander Ekman&#8217;s Midsommarnattsdr\u00f6m (&#8220;A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream&#8221;) at the Royal Opera during its first run, which must have been in 2015 or 2016. Now it&#8217;s back, and we saw it again. I&#8217;m glad that the Opera is willing to invest in a show with such a large cast. (I counted 40+ people on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,796,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art_entertainment","category-dailies","category-dance","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18906,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18901\/revisions\/18906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}