The Midsummer Marriage is an opera in three acts, with music and libretto by Michael Tippett. The work's first performance was at Covent Garden, on 27...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots...
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Michael Tippett (redirect from Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles)
works are the oratorio A Child of Our Time, the orchestral Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, and the opera The Midsummer Marriage. Tippett's...
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Contralto (category Pages using the Score extension)
The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert and Sullivan) Schwertleite, Die Walküre (Wagner) Smeaton, Anna Bolena (Donizetti) Sosostris, The Midsummer Marriage (Tippett)...
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Midsummer is a celebration of the season of summer occurring near the date of the summer solstice which is known in solar reckoning as the mid-point of...
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Piano Concerto (Tippett) (category Music commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra)
much of the intervening time with The Midsummer Marriage. The Piano Concerto was the result of one of Tippett's most complex creative cycles. The events...
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Andrew Davis (conductor) (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage. His Lyric Opera of Chicago tenure ended at the close of the 2020–2021 season. In 2005 Davis became Music Advisor to the Pittsburgh...
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Amir Hosseinpour (category Exiles of the Iranian Revolution in the United Kingdom)
choreography for Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage at the Bavarian State Opera in February 1998 was described as 'stunning' by The Daily Telegraph critic,...
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insightful essay accompanying the first recording of the work, Tippett writes: About the time I was finishing 'The Midsummer Marriage' I was sitting one day...
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Shakespeare's 1595–1596 play A Midsummer Night's Dream. In the play, she is the Queen of the fairies and wife of the Fairy King, Oberon. The pair are depicted as...
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