Question: A Midsummer Night's Dream is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's composed music of which famous writers play?

<P0-S0>  First in 1826, near the start of his career, he wrote a concert overture (Op. 21). <P0-S1>  Later, in 1842, only a few years before his death, he wrote incidental music (Op. 61) for a production of the play, into which he incorporated the existing Overture. <P0-S2>  The incidental music includes the world-famous "Wedding March". <P0-S3>  The German title reads "Ein Sommernachtstraum". <P0-S4> At two separate times, Felix Mendelssohn composed music for William Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream". <SEP> <P1-S0>  In addition to the incidental music, Balanchine incorporated other Mendelssohn works into the ballet, including the Overtures to "Athalie", "Son and Stranger", and "The Fair Melusine", the "String Symphony No. 9 in C minor" and "The First Walpurgis Night". <P1-S1>  "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Balanchine's first completely original full-length ballet, premiered at New York City Ballet on 17 January 1962, with Edward Villella in the role of Oberon, Melissa Hayden in the role of Titania, and Arthur Mitchell in the role of Puck. <P1-S2>  The ballet employs a large children's corps de ballet. <P1-S3>  Act I tells Shakespeare's familiar story of lovers and fairies while Act II presents a strictly classical dance wedding celebration. <P1-S4> A Midsummer Night's Dream is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's music to Shakespeare's play of the same name. <P1-S5>  The ballet dispenses with Shakespeare's play-within-a-play finale. <P1-S6>  "A Midsummer Night's Dream" opened The New York City Ballet's first season at the New York State Theater in April, 1964. <SEP> <P2-S0> A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1935 American romance fantasy film of William Shakespeare's play, directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, and starring James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Muir, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell, Ross Alexander Anita Louise, Victor Jory and Ian Hunter. <P2-S1>  Produced by Henry Blanke and Hal Wallis for Warner Brothers, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr. from Reinhardt's Hollywood Bowl production of the previous year, the film is about the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta. <P2-S2>  These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the story is set. <P2-S3>  The play, which is categorized as a comedy, is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world. <P2-S4>  Felix Mendelssohn's music was extensively used, as re-orchestrated by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. <P2-S5>  The ballet sequences featuring the fairies were choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska. <SEP> <P3-S0> Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" in C major, written in 1842, is one of the best known of the pieces from his suite of incidental music (Op. 61) to Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". <P3-S1>  It is one of the most frequently used wedding marches, generally being played on a church pipe organ.