Tippett, Sir Michael : The Midsummer Marriage

Titel (DE): The Midsummer Marriage - Die Mittsommerhochzeit
Titel (EN): The Midsummer Marriage - Opera in 3 acts
Titel (FR): The Midsummer Marriage - Opera in 3 acts
Komponist / Composer: Tippett, Sir Michael
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Besetzung / Instrumentation: Soli, Chor und Orchester / soloists, choir and orchestra
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Kompositionsjahr / Date of Composition: 1947 - 1952
Aufführungsdauer / Duration: 150'
Verlag / Publisher: Eulenburg
Erscheindungsdatum / Date of Publishing: 17.08.2011
Ausgabe / Publication: Studienpartitur - Study score -
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Seiten / Pages: 732
Verarbeitung: Broschur - Paperback/Softcover
Schwierigkeitsgrad / Difficulty: - -
Sprache / Language: Englisch
Reihe / Series: Eulenburg Studienpartituren
ISMN: M-2002-2423-8
ISMN-13: 979-0-2002-2423-8
ISMN-EAN: 9790200224238
UPC: 841886009530

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 themselves.The central couple, those whose marriage is at first subverted and then gloriously celebrated, are Mark and Jenifer: he a young man of the earth and the senses, she a young woman of lofty spirituality. Each is only half a person, and before they can be united they have to be made whole, have to find within themselves an understanding of the other. Overseeing their mythic initiation and psychic healing are two Ancients, votaries of a temple on a wooded hilltop.As in the Mozart precedent, which the composer certainly had in mind, there is also a more workaday couple, Jack and Bella. The other principals are Jenifer's businessman father King Fisher, who wants to stop the wedding for reasons of his own, and an Erda-like seer. There is also a dancer, Strephon, leading the exuberant ballet in which the orchestra completes the story of enlightenment and passion. It is ultimately a victory of love and, before love, self-knowledge.(Paul Griffiths)

Preface - Vorwort - Préface - The Birth of an Opera - Act I, II, III - Appendices: Authorised cuts -Correction list to first edition

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Avec plus de 1 200 titres de partitions d'étude pour orchestre et chur, de musique de chambre et de musique de théâtre, les éditions Eulenburg ont la plus grande collection de partitions d'étude du monde. Elles couvrent une bonne partie de l´histoire de la musique, du baroque à la musique classique moderne, et témoignent d´une longue tradition.

Preface - Vorwort - Préface - The Birth of an Opera - Act I, II, III - Appendices: Authorised cuts -Correction list to first edition