The Operas Of Michael Tippett

Author : Michael Tippett
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714545074
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operas of Michael Tippett written by Michael Tippett and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it is impossible to trace any one particular theme running through the operas of Michael Tippett, the libretti of his four operas are fascinating to compare. The dense allusions of The Midsummer Marriage (1955), here annotated, gave way to the classical formality of King Priam (1962); the psychoanalytical preoccupations of The Knot Garden (1970) hardly foreshadow the contemporary political commentary of The Ice Break (1977). Each work breaks new ground and provokes unexpected responses. The libretti offer unique introductions to the music, and throw a searching light on the direction of British theatre since 1945.Contents: Operas contained in this volume: The Midsummer Marriage, King Priam, The Knot Garden, The Ice Break; Introduction, Meirion Bowen; A Ritual of Renewal, Paul Driver; 'A Visionary Night', John Lloyd Davies; Music for an Epic, Andrew Clements; A Tempest of Our Time, Meirion Bowen; Stereotypes and Rebirth, Leslie East

Author : Michael Tippett
Publisher : Calder Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780714540610
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Operas of Michael Tippett written by Michael Tippett and published by Calder Publications Limited. This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original where appropriate. Although it is impossible to trace any one particular theme running through the operas of Michael Tippett, the libretti of his four operas are fascinating to compare. The dense allusions of The Midsummer Marriage (1955), here annotated, gave way to the classical formality of King Priam (1962); the psycho-analytical preoccupations of The Knot Garden (1970) hardly foreshadow the contemporary political commentary of The Ice Break (1977). Each work breaks new ground and provokes unexpected responses. The libretti offer unique introductions to the music. They incidentally throw a searching light on the direction of British theatre since 1945.

Author : Oliver Soden
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474606040
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Tippett written by Oliver Soden and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A delight to read' Philip Pullman 'Essential reading ... a genuine landmark publication' Tom Service A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' The music of the British composer Michael Tippett - including the oratorio A Child of Our Time, five operas, and four symphonies - is among the most visionary of the twentieth century. But little has been written about his extraordinary life. In this long-awaited first biography, Oliver Soden weaves a century-spanning narrative of epic scope and penetrating insight. Soden has discovered troves of unpublished letters and manuscripts, and recorded moving interviews with Tippett's friends and colleagues. He paints a portrait of a powerful intellect and infectious personality: charming, stubborn, and great fun. But he also uncovers the sorrows and secrets that Tippett stowed away beneath his cheerfulness, not least the darker reaches of some tempestuous and often tragic love affairs. Soden's achievement is to have enriched our understanding not only of Tippett but of his times. Figures such as T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth, and W.H. Auden jostle in the cast list. An Edwardian world of gaslight and empire cedes to turmoil and warfare; one startling revelation is the extent of Tippett's involvement in the fiery left-wing politics of the 1930s. The narrative roves from the mining villages of the north, blighted by unemployment, to a cell at Wormwood Scrubs, where Tippett was imprisoned as a conscientious objector. Later chapters uncover his operas' game-changing attitudes to gay and civil rights, against a backdrop of the Cold War and the Space Race. And singing from the page comes the music, through which Soden charts an exquisitely written course, offering lucid readings of Tippett's most famous works while resuscitating forgotten masterpieces. The result is a landmark in the study of twentieth-century culture, simultaneously an astonishing feat of scholarship and a story as enthralling as in any great novel.

Author : Margaret A. Scheppach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The operas of Michael Tippett in the light of twentieth century opera aesthetics written by Margaret A. Scheppach and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir Michael Tippett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Tippett's Operas written by Sir Michael Tippett and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Elfyn Jones
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early Operas of Michael Tippett written by Richard Elfyn Jones and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study first deals with the fasinating range of verbal and dramatic symbolism of three operas (The Midsummer Marriage, King Priam, and The Knot Garden) in chapters which do not require from the reader a technical knowledge of music.

Author : Kenneth Gloag
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107021979
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett written by Kenneth Gloag and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides a wide ranging and accessible study of one of the most individual composers of the twentieth century. A team of international scholars shed new light on Tippett's major works and draw attention to those that have not yet received the attention they deserve.

Author : Malinee Jayasundera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Operas of Michael Tippett written by Malinee Jayasundera and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Tippett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198165422
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tippett on Music written by Michael Tippett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Michael Tippett was born in 1905 and thus celebrated his 90th birthday in 1995. To mark this occasion, Oxford University Press published Tippett on Music, a new and up-to-date compilation of his essays drawing on his two published collections Moving into Aquarius and Music of the Angels but also including much new material.

Author : Margaret A. Scheppach (Sister)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Operas of Michael Tippett in the Light of Twentieth-century Opera Aesthetics written by Margaret A. Scheppach (Sister) and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: