Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction by Meirion Bowen A Ritual of Renewal by Paul Driver 'The Midsummer Marriage' an Opera in Three Acts Act One Act Two Act Three 'A Visionary Night' by John Lloyd Davies Music for an Epic by Andrew Clements 'King Priam' an Opera in Three Acts Act One Act Two Act Three A Tempest of Our Time by Meirion Bowen 'The Knot Garden' an Opera in Three Acts Act One Act Two Act Three Stereotypes and Rebirth by Leslie East 'The Ice Break' an Opera in Three Acts Act One Act Two Act Three Discography Bibliography Contributors

About the Author

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (1905–98) is generally acknowledged to be one of the most important British composers of the twentieth century. His deeply held humanitarian and pacifist beliefs shaped both his life and his music, serving a prison sentence as a conscientious objector in the Second World War and being one of the first openly gay composers to explore issues of sexuality in his work.

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