# Any films of 'Midsummer N's D' use the Mendelssohn?

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**Created:** [March 17, 2007, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-films-of-midsummer-ns-d-use-the-mendelssohn/396317 "2007-03-17T07:40:29Z")\
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I’ve been grooving on Felix Mendelssohn’s “Incidental Music for _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_” (he wrote the oveture, one of the most perfect pieces of music ever written, when he was _sixteen_) and I was thinking how awesome it would be for someone to stage the play using all of the Mendelssohn score. Anyone ever seen such a production?

Anyone know of a filmed version?

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The 1999 version [A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140379/) with Stanley Tucci as Puck, uses a little of the Mendelssohn. Just enough to entice.

Interestingly, not credited on the IMDB but it’s there in the opening credits, at least, for sure, and I think the wedding march too.