Original: Pears was co-librettist for A Midsummer Night 's Dream , and created one of his few comic roles in it : As Flute the Bellows-mender he performed a drag parody of Joan Sutherland in the mad scene of Lucia di Lammermoor .
Simplified: In this role he was dressed up as a female and did a parody of the great opera singer Joan Sutherland singing the mad scene from Lucia di Lammermoor .