The Midsummer Marriage
Tippett, Sir Michael Like few other theatre works-The Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night's Dream-Tippett's first opera creates a wholly other place, one where human actions can be seen as in a tilted mirror. Since this is indeed an opera, the place, or dreamspace, is conjured by music: by luminescent music that, in its flowing abundance, radiant harmonies and evocative wind colourings, represents the natural world within which the characters have to integrate themselv...