Pears was co-librettist for A Midsummer Night 's Dream , and created one of his few comic roles in it : As Flute the MISC@1 he performed a drag parody of PERSON@1 in the mad scene of PERSON@2 .

In this role he was dressed up as a female and did a parody of the great opera singer PERSON@1 singing the mad scene from PERSON@2 .
