Talk:The Midsummer Marriage
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Performances
editonline sources
edit- Details of the recordings: [15]
- Details of composition etc [16]
- Details of composition, recordings, performances at Schott Music [17]
- oh to have item 66 on this list: "Typescript of talk by Michael Tippett at the Arnolfini, Bristol, on The Midsummer Marriage, n.d., with Tippett taking questions" [18]
Concert performances
editProductions
editThe Royal Opera House has mounted three productions of The Midsummer Marriage, in 1955, 1968 and 1996.[1] The 1996 production was revived in 2005, to mark the centenary of the Tippett's birth.[2][3]
In 1976 Welsh National Opera staged a production[4]Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). with a cast that included Felicity Lott as Jennifer[5] and Helen Watts, who had played the role in London in 1968, and recorded it in 1970, as Sosostris.[6] Other British productions have been put on by Opera North in 1985[7] and Scottish Opera in 1988.[8]
Abroad the opera has received at least four productions. The German premiere was on 29 September 1973, at the [9] with Lieselotte Rebmann as Jennifer [10]. Other productions have been at Stockholm in 1982,[11] San Fransisco in 1983, New York in 1988,1993 [12] and the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2005.[13]
Concert performances have been given at the 1977 London Proms,[14] and in Boston in 2012.[15]
Paper sources
editBooks
edit- Sadie, S. and Macy, L. (eds.) (2006). "Midsummer Marriage, The", pp. 410-413. The Grove Book of Operas. Oxford University Press. (This Google link gives full access to pages 410 and 412 only), but still has quire a lot of material) Voceditenore (talk) 12:03, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
- Lebrecht, Norman (2001). Covent Garden, the Untold Story: Dispatches from the English Culture Wars, 1945-2000, pp.170-171. University Press of New England (behind-the-scenes background to the premiere). Voceditenore (talk) 12:03, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
- Google book result
Programmes
edit- "I have a programme of a Welsh National Opera production (Ian Watt-Smith/Richard Armstrong) which I saw in Leeds in 1976 and another (somewhere) of a 1985 Opera North production, also in Leeds (Tim Albery/David Lloyd-Jones)" quoth GT on the InfoBoxProject talkpage
Little note on the references
editThe references for the performance history are, at the moment, bare, because I'm searching for better ones - I don't want to put in the effort just to have to redo straight after. almost-instinct 18:48, 5 August 2013 (UTC)