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Performances

online sources

  • Details of the recordings: [1]
  • Details of composition etc [2]
  • Details of composition, recordings, performances at Schott Music [3]
  • 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" [4]

Concert performances

  • Proms 2013 [5]
  • Proms 1977 (same source)
  • Boston concert perf 2012 [6]

Productions

The 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

Books

Programmes

  • "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

The 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)[reply]

  1. ^ [7]
  2. ^ [8]
  3. ^ [9]
  4. ^ [10]
  5. ^ [11]
  6. ^ [12]
  7. ^ [13]
  8. ^ [14]
  9. ^ Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
  10. ^ [15]
  11. ^ [16]
  12. ^ [17]
  13. ^ [18]
  14. ^ [19]
  15. ^ [20]
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