PUCK: Well hello there! We’ve finally made it to the wedding of Duke Theseus and Queen Hippolyta. But they’re not the only happy couple round here, oh no. Let me ...

The first song is an upbeat celebration of the forthcoming marriage of Duke Theseus and Queen Hippolyta. Our storyteller - a woodland sprite called Puck - welcomes us to Athens. It's a special ...

Theseus has defeated Hippolyta in battle, and now claims her as his bride. But before the nuptials begin, a pair of young lovers flee into the forest to be married, pursued by a pair of not-lovers.

At the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, while young Hermia is sentenced to death by her own father for loving the wrong man.