Soon after the start of the first of these the royal fairy couple, Oberon and Tytania, enter in formal dress. Chicago Opera Theater’s presentation divides the action and emotional entanglements of Britten’s three acts into two parts. The movements of all the characters in this production are matched consistently to an orchestral or vocal expression, emphasizing thus the union of choreography with lyrical and declamatory effect. Already from the subdued opening accompanied by muted strings an underlying tension is evident in the darting figure of Puck, a spoken role assumed in this production by the actor Jason Griffin. In its recent performances of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Chicago Opera Theater affirms its reputation for carefully gauged and well cast productions. Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Chicago Opera Theater All other dramatic extremes - be it fevered love declaration, jealous rage or elegant death - was conducted in an almost balletic minimalism of physical effort. It was the supporting actors/dancers, Kabuki-like, who supplied the human activity - including a memorable “a capella” rhythmic foot-stamping war-interlude.
If the singers were disadvantaged physically by what they were wearing, they didn’t seem to show it - although to be fair none had to move at anything more than a dignified pace. The heavy, stylised, costumes - extravagant to the point of caricature - are in themselves a theatrical tool that both enable and yet also constrain the drama of this young Mozart’s early work. The time is about 65 BC and the world is one of an old Asia Minor versus a rising Rome, with an ageing King Mitridate fighting off both martial and sexual invasions of his territories. Essentially, director Graham Vick and designer Paul Brown and their team created a world, half historic, half fantastic, and one is left with a visual memory replete with starkly simple blood-red sets, kaleidoscopically coloured bizarrely shaped costumes and arrowed shafts of silver light, almost painfully reflecting from armoured breastplates. To this newcomer’s eye it is still both amazingly original in its design and concept, and yet also oddly frustrating. Fire Dance Scene 3_1added: 6:00 Muscle On Muscle Fuckadded: 4:36 Val - The Hottest Muscle Bodadded: 2:20 Hairy Muscle Guy - What A Hottie!!!added: 0:57 HOT MUSCLE VIDSadded: 7:40 MUSCLE SEX CLASSICadded: 13:40 Gayroom Ass Massageadded: 6:15 Sex On Stageadded: 1:14 Rocks And Hard Places 2 Scene 2added: 6:00 SEXO A MELHOR COISA DO MUNDO, EU SOU FELIZ.added: 2:00 Beefy Muscle Wrecks Str8 Bros Assadded: 6:34 Jonathan Agassi Dominates Bottom Slut Scott Carteradded: 0:36 Gareth Cum SnowBalladded: 0:26 Cubista Mykonosadded: 1:39 Military Dick Downadded: 30:35 Daze, S01added: 3:05 Ping Pong BJsadded: 4:54 Italian Style Scene 1added: 6:00 Desires Of A Gymnast - Part 2added: 2:40 Neighbour Drops Byadded: 2:00 I Want Musclesadded: 4:19 Fit Footballer Balls Drainedadded: 0:41 Hungary For Men Scene 1added: 6:00 Train Fucking,Real Public Sexadded: 1:15 Army Guy Fucks Navy Guyadded: 5:05 Dildo Meets Hairy Assadded: 0:37 Muscled Guy Gets His Fine Tatooed Ass Fucked 2 By GotRubadded: 5:18 Vince Ferelli Finger Fucking Himselfadded: 0:57 HOT MUSCLE VIDSadded: 6:30 Rough Breeding A Bitchadded: 24:20 UNLIMITEDadded: 5:46 Muscle Hunk Big Cockadded: 2:25 Hot Hairy Muscular Dude Bashes His Own Balls And Jacks His Big Cock.added: 2:18 Bo Dean And Devin Drazadded: 2:00 Muscle College Hunksadded: 4:36 My Assadded: 0:47 Built Black Guy With A MONSTERadded: 2:14 Hot Shower Sceneadded: 7:17 Muscle Guy And Cute Friend Jerking Off On Boatadded: 2:20 Ass Bathadded: 0:50 Dirt Roadadded: 2:00 Hairy Muscle Stud Takes Alladded: 6:00 El Rancho Scene 1added: 6:00 Do Some Laps On My Cock!p2added: 6:08 Piss & Cum Bukkakeadded: 2:00 Jake Deckard And Anton Harriadded: 2:10 Hot Studs Bathroom Sexadded: 19:41 Wank PaScene 1added: 3:13 PERFECT BALLOON PECSadded: 5:46 Beefy Flexing By FlexBigMuscleadded: 1:36 Randy Blue - Jason Harperadded: 1:00 Hairy Bodybuilder Gets His Balls Bashed And Squeezed By Leather Masked Buddy As Both Jack Off.added: 2:08 MARK WOLFF VS.I can only dimly imagine how this singular and arresting production was first greeted at Covent Garden back in 1991.