Talk:The Midsummer Marriage

online sources

 * Details of the recordings:
 * Details of composition etc
 * Details of composition, recordings, performances at Schott Music
 * 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"

Concert performances

 * Proms 2013
 * Proms 1977 (same source)
 * Boston concert perf 2012

Productions
The Royal Opera House has mounted three productions of The Midsummer Marriage, in 1955, 1968 and 1996. The 1996 production was revived in 2005, to mark the centenary of the Tippett's birth.

In 1976 Welsh National Opera staged a production with a cast that included Felicity Lott as Jennifer and Helen Watts, who had played the role in London in 1968, and recorded it in 1970, as Sosostris. Other British productions have been put on by Opera North in 1985 and Scottish Opera in 1988.

Abroad the opera has received at least four productions. The German premiere was on 29 September 1973, at the with Lieselotte Rebmann as Jennifer. Other productions have been at Stockholm in 1982, San Fransisco in 1983, New York in 1988,1993 and the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2005.

Concert performances have been given at the 1977 London Proms, and in Boston in 2012.

Books

 * 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

 * "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)