Titania, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61 Incidental Music

The British Library 和 Gilbert Akham。

Vivien Leigh passed away ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1967.

This mesmerising photograph of Leigh shows her playing Titania in‪#‎Shakespeare‬’s 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' at the Old Vic Theatre in 1937. The production, directed by Tyrone Guthrie, was set to Mendelssohn's incidental music for the play. http://bit.ly/29sJkNh

Image © Mander and Mitchenson collection at the University of Bristol and ArenaPAL

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61 Incidental Music - No.1 Scherzo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjEbAIh2XyQ

Titania is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. In the play, she is the queen of the fairies. Due to Shakespeare's influence, later fiction has often used the name "Titania" for fairy queen characters.

Titania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titania

Incidental Music
Short musical segments that accompany, or highlight dramatic moments in, a play, or other stage work.
Wikipedia article "Incidental music".

in・ci・den・tal

  

━━ a. 付随［偶発］的な ((to)); 主要でない; 臨時の.
━━ n. 付随的事件; （pl.） 雑費, 臨時費.
 in・ci・den・tal・ly　━━ ad. 付随的に; 臨時に; 偶然; ついでに（言えば）.
 incidental music　（劇・映画の）付随音楽.