Edited by Jeanette Winterson.
Midsummer Nights is an anthology of opera-inspired stories by the best writers of modern fiction, published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Glyndebourne Festival of Opera, one of Britain's most extraordinary cultural institutions. Jeanette Winterson has brought together sixteen of the best loved and most critically acclaimed contemporary authors to pen stories inspired by opera, including Alexander McCall Smith on Coś Fan Tutte, Anne Enright on Rusalka and Kate Atkinson on La Traviata.