The Midsummer Marriage
Time for a Tippett revival
Philip Hensher 13 April 2019 9:00 am
Running the entire course of the 20th century, Michael Tippett’s life (1905–1998) was devoted to innovation. He was an English…
Tippett’s Midsummer Marriage is an opera of exuberant genius — but forget about the text
Michael Tanner 24 August 2013 9:00 am
Whenever Michael Tippett’s first opera, The Midsummer Marriage, is revived, there is a chorus of voices, including mine, complaining that…