Editing A Midsummer Night's Dream (section)

===Ballets===
* [[Marius Petipa]] made a ballet adaptation for the [[Mariinsky Ballet|Imperial Ballet]] of [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]] with additional music and adaptations to Mendelssohn's score by [[Ludwig Minkus|Léon Minkus]]. The revival premiered 14 July 1876. 
* [[George Balanchine]]'s ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', his first original full-length ballet, was premiered by the [[New York City Ballet]] on 17 January 1962. It was chosen to open the NYCB's first season at the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center in 1964. Balanchine interpolated further music by Mendelssohn into his ''Dream'', including the overture from ''[[Athalie]]''.{{sfn|Charles|2000}} A film version of the ballet was released in 1966.{{sfn|Barnes|1967}}
* [[Frederick Ashton]] created ''The Dream'', a short (not full-length) ballet set exclusively to the famous music by Félix Mendelssohn, arranged by [[John Lanchbery]], in 1964. It was created on England's Royal Ballet and has since entered the repertoire of other companies, notably The Joffrey Ballet and American Ballet Theatre.{{sfn|Charles|2000}}
* [[John Neumeier]] created his full-length ballet ''Ein Sommernachtstraum'' for his company at the Hamburg State Opera (Hamburgische Staatsoper) in 1977. Longer than Ashton's or Balanchine's earlier versions, Neumeier's version includes other music by Mendelssohn along with the ''Midsummer Night's Dream'' music, as well as music from the modern composer [[György Ligeti]], and jaunty barrel organ music. Neumeier devotes the three sharply differing musical styles to the three character groups, with the aristocrats and nobles dancing to Mendelssohn, the fairies to Ligeti, and the rustics or mechanicals to the barrel organ.{{sfn|Reynolds|2006}}
* [[Elvis Costello]] composed the music for a full-length ballet ''[[Il Sogno]]'', based on ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. The music was subsequently released as a classical album by [[Deutsche Grammophon]] in 2004.