Shakespeare ventured to Italy many times, in his dramatic imagination… Nothing, however, beats this: A Midsummer Night’s Dream stunningly performed with full orchestra and children’s choir in a magical wood 3,000ft up an Italian mountain. ★★★★★I’m a very small connoisseur of Shakespeare alfresco. I have endured The Tempest in a tempest, courtesy of a young Mark Rylance who wanted to harness the “power of the ley lines”, as well as Hamlet at Elsinore Castle (or Helsingor, as the Danes call it), and a freezing night of Macbeth on the Scottish island of Inchcolm, which is mentioned in the play.

Source: The Times July 21, 2016 15:56 UTC