Before whether an artwork was interesting or whether it was engagé became important, the main criteria for judging an artwork was its sublimeness. This hard to pin down something that simultaneously touches your feelings and intelligence and lifts one out of mundane mess into the luminousity of abstraction. In an age where emotions are monetized and atomized, the tide is turning again towards the pursuit of the sublime. And nothing is more sublime than music, which, as Plato said, is soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. “Ein Sommernachtstraum” is the luxurious chef-d’oeuvre of Felix Mendelssohn-Baltholdy, also known as “the Mozart of the 19th century”, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a play by Shakespeare about the vertiginous inconsistency of love and desire. But fueled by the pursuit of the sublime, Ene-Liis Semper’s and Tiit Ojasoo’s production goes bravely beyond the plot. The possibilities of contemporary technology enable man to express the inner world of emotions with hitherto impossible grandiosity. A tear in the corner of the eye, born out of an inner explosion, can have the effect of just as big or even bigger a tsunami than the initial emotion itself. The image is more real than reality itself. Narcissus of the ancient myth looked into the mirror of water, contemporary Narcissus is facing lenses and screens. Direction – Art Direction Ene-Liis Semper, Tiit Ojasoo Conductor Olari Elts Light Artist Pietu Pietiäinen Animation Heta Jäälinoja, Aggie Pak-Yee Lee Live mix Maarja Pärsim Animation live mix Alyona Movko Cameras Jekaterina Abramova, Sanna Maria Rink Dramaturgy Laur Kaunissaare