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The Midsummer Marriage

Index The Midsummer Marriage

The Midsummer Marriage is an opera in three acts, with music and libretto by Michael Tippett. [1]

80 relations: Adele Leigh, Alberto Remedios, Anima and animus, Arthur Davies (tenor), Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Barbara Hepworth, Baritone, Bass (voice type), Bass drum, Bassoon, Bavarian State Opera, Carl Jung, Celesta, Clarinet, Colin Davis, Contralto, Cymbal, David Cairns (writer), Edith Coates, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Elizabeth Harwood, English National Opera, Felicity Lott, Fisher King, Frederick Dalberg, French horn, Gillian Lynne, Gong, Harp, Helen Watts, Jill Gomez, Joan Carlyle, Joan Sutherland, John Cranko, John Pritchard (conductor), Los Angeles Times, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Maureen Guy, Mezzo-soprano, Michael Langdon, Michael Tippett, Monica Sinclair, Music & Letters, New York City Opera, Oboe, Opera News, Opera North, Oralia Domínguez, Otakar Kraus, Percussion instrument, ..., Piccolo, Raimund Herincx, Richard Armstrong (conductor), Richard Lewis (tenor), Royal Opera House, Schott Music, Scottish Opera, Snare drum, Soprano, Stafford Dean, String orchestra, Stuart Burrows, T. S. Eliot, Tempo (journal), Tenor, The Guardian, The Magic Flute, The Musical Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Proms, The Waste Land, Timpani, Triangle (musical instrument), Trombone, Trumpet, Tubular bells, Voice type, Welsh National Opera, Western concert flute, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Expand index (30 more) »

Adele Leigh

Adele Leigh (15 June 1928 – 23 May 2004) was an English operatic soprano, later the wife of the Austrian ambassador in London.

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Alberto Remedios

Alberto Remedios CBE (27 February 193511 June 2016) was a British operatic tenor, especially noted for his interpretations of Wagner's heldentenor roles.

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Anima and animus

The anima and animus are described in Carl Jung's school of analytical psychology as part of his theory of the collective unconscious.

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Arthur Davies (tenor)

Arthur Davies (born 11 April 1941) is a Welsh tenor who had an active international performance career from the 1970s through the 1990s.

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Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe is a theatre and opera house in Karlsruhe, Germany.

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Barbara Hepworth

Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor.

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice types.

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Bass (voice type)

A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types.

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Bass drum

A bass drum, or kick drum, is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.

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Bassoon

The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor clefs, and occasionally the treble.

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Bavarian State Opera

The Bavarian State Opera (German) is an opera company based in Munich, Germany.

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Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.

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Celesta

The celesta or celeste is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments.

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Colin Davis

Sir Colin Rex Davis (25 September 1927 – 14 April 2013) was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959.

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Contralto

A contralto is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.

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Cymbal

A cymbal is a common percussion instrument.

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David Cairns (writer)

David Adam Cairns CBE (born 8 June 1926, Loughton, Essex) is a British journalist, non-fiction writer and musician.

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Edith Coates

Edith Coates OBE (31 May 1908 – 7 January 1983) was an English operatic mezzo-soprano.

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Elizabeth Bainbridge

Elizabeth Bainbridge (born 28 March 1930) is a retired English opera singer.

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Elizabeth Harwood

Elizabeth Harwood (27 May 1938 – 21 June 1990) was an English lyric soprano.

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English National Opera

English National Opera (ENO) is an opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St. Martin's Lane.

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Felicity Lott

Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott, (born 8 May 1947) is an English soprano.

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Fisher King

In Arthurian legend, the Fisher King, also known as the Wounded King or Maimed King, is the last in a long line charged with keeping the Holy Grail.

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Frederick Dalberg

Frederick Dalberg (7 January 1907 – 9 May 1988) was an English born South African opera bass.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the "horn" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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Gillian Lynne

Dame Gillian Barbara Lynne, DBE (née Pyrke; born 20 February 1926) is a British ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director, noted for her popular theatre choreography associated with two of the longest-running shows in Broadway history, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera.

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Gong

A gong (from Malay: gong;; ra; គង - Kong; ฆ้อง Khong; cồng chiêng) is an East and Southeast Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat, circular metal disc which is hit with a mallet.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Helen Watts

Helen Watts CBE (7 December 19277 October 2009) was a Welsh contralto.

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Jill Gomez

Jill Carnegy, Countess of Northesk (née Gomez) (born 21 September 1942) is a Trinidadian and British soprano who enjoyed an active career on the operatic stage and in the concert hall in a wide repertoire, and has made many recordings.

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Joan Carlyle

Joan Carlyle (born 6 April 1931) is an English opera singer.

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Joan Sutherland

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE (7 November 192610 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.

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John Cranko

John Cyril Cranko (15 August 1927 – 26 June 1973) was a South African born ballet dancer and choreographer with the Royal Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet.

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John Pritchard (conductor)

Sir John Michael Pritchard, CBE (5 February 19215 December 1989) was an English conductor.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Lyric Opera of Chicago

Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States.

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Maureen Guy

Ruth Maureen Guy (10 July 1932 — 14 February 2015) was a Welsh mezzo-soprano singer.

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Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.

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Michael Langdon

Michael Langdon (12 November 192012 March 1991) was a British bass opera singer.

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Michael Tippett

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War.

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Monica Sinclair

Monica Sinclair (23 March 19257 May 2002) was a British operatic contralto, who sang many roles with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden during the 1950s and 1960s, and appeared on stage and in recordings with Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Callas, Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir Malcolm Sargent, and many others.

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Music & Letters

Music & Letters is an academic journal published quarterly by Oxford University Press with a focus on musicology.

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New York City Opera

The New York City Opera (NYCO) is an American opera company located in Manhattan in New York City.

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Oboe

Oboes are a family of double reed woodwind instruments.

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Opera News

Opera News is an American classical music magazine.

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Opera North

Opera North is an English opera company based in Leeds.

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Oralia Domínguez

Oralia Dominguez (25 October 1925 in San Luis Potosí, Mexico – 25 November 2013 in Milan, Italy) was a Mexican operatic mezzo-soprano who performed at many of the world's leading opera houses.

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Otakar Kraus

Otakar Kraus (10 December 1909 — 28 July 1980) was a Czech (later British), operatic baritone and teacher.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Piccolo

The piccolo (Italian for "small", but named ottavino in Italy) is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments.

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Raimund Herincx

Raimund Frederick Herincx (23 August 1927 in London – 10 February 2018), was a British operatic bass-baritone.

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Richard Armstrong (conductor)

Sir Richard Armstrong, CBE (born 7 January 1943 in Leicester) is a British conductor.

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Richard Lewis (tenor)

Richard Lewis CBE (10 May 191413 November 1990) was a Welsh tenor.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Schott Music

Schott Music is one of the oldest German music publishers.

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Scottish Opera

Scottish Opera is the national opera company of Scotland, and one of the five national performing arts companies funded by the Scottish Government.

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Snare drum

A snare drum or side drum is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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Stafford Dean

Stafford Dean (born 20 June 1937) is a British bass opera singer.

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String orchestra

A string orchestra is an orchestra consisting solely of a string section made up of the bowed strings used in Western Classical music.

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Stuart Burrows

Stuart Burrows OBE (born 7 February 1933) is a Welsh operatic tenor.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".

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Tempo (journal)

Tempo is a quarterly music magazine published in the UK that specialises in music of the 20th century and contemporary music.

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Tenor

Tenor is a type of classical male singing voice, whose vocal range is normally the highest male voice type, which lies between the baritone and countertenor voice types.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute (German), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.

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The Musical Times

The Musical Times is an academic journal of classical music edited and produced in the United Kingdom and currently the oldest such journal still being published in that country.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia metropolitan area of the United States.

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The Proms

The Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.

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The Waste Land

The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry.

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Timpani

Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.

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Triangle (musical instrument)

The triangle is an idiophone type of musical instrument in the percussion family.

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Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Tubular bells

Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family.

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Voice type

A voice type classifies a singing voice by vocal range, vocal weight, tessitura, vocal timbre, vocal transition points (passaggia) like breaks and lifts, and vocal register.

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Welsh National Opera

Welsh National Opera (WNO) (Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru) is an opera company based in Cardiff, Wales; it gave its first performances in 1946.

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Western concert flute

The Western concert flute is a transverse (side-blown) woodwind instrument made of metal or wood.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midsummer_Marriage

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