Tippett - The Midsummer Marriage Opera Lyrita

SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT

The Midsummer Marriage

Opera in Three Acts - Libretto by the Composer

ACT I

Scene 1

This way! This way! (Semi-chorus)

3:45

What's that? Surely music? (Girls, men)

1:07

Scene 2

(leading to:) (Orchestra)

0:51

Stop! Stop! Stop! (Mark)

5:00

Scene 3: O, Mark, who are they (Chorus) Scene 4: Jenifer, Jenifer my darling. (Mark)

11:47

What Steps are those? (Jenifer) Scene 5: Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho,... (Men)

9:55

What sort of place is this d'you think? (King Fisher)

3:57

Scene 6

So you, so you are Mark's fine brood of friends. (King Fisher)

2:56

So you, so you, so you're the company my daughter keeps! (King Fisher)

1:54

10.

Scene 7: Here I am, Sir, what can I do? (Jack) Scene 8: Jenifer! Jenifer! my daughter Jenifer! (Firls, Men, King Fisher)

15:64

11.

Returning to the earth is cruel (Jenifer)

2:09

12.

Come now with me and drop this childish masquerade (King Fisher)

4:37

13.

Is it so strange... (Jenifer)

5:56

14.

You, you who were with me when she left me (Mark)

4:08

15.

See by a heavenly magic in this glass (Jenifer)

4:40

Act II (start)

16.

Pre Scene: Call - crying as they're flying... (Chorus) Scene 1: Jack, don't let's go with all the others (Bella)

6:51

17.

What day is it? (Bella)

3:57

18.

I'll lay the baby to my breast (Bella) Scene 2: (Stephen enters from behind the temple) (Orchestra)

6:75

19.

(Some of the trees appear to move) (Orchestra)

1:56

20.

1st Dance: The Earth in Autumn (Orchestra)

3:54

21.

2nd Dance: The Waters in Winter (Orchestra)

4:59

22.

3rd Dance: The Air in Spring (Orchestra)

2:50

23.

(leading to:) (Orchestra) Scene 3: Ah! They'll kill him! (Bella)

5:22

24.

(neat and ready to rejoin) King Fisher (Bella) Post Scene: Sun shines on a Midsumer day (Chorus)

3:21

Act III

25.

Evening and Night (Orchestra) Scene 1: Ohay! Ohay! (Chorus)

5:01

26.

No! King Fisher summons you... (King Fisher) Scene 2: Keep the holster close by you... (King Fisher)

2:36

Scene 3

27.

Now, Bella, call The Ancients (King Fisher)

3:04

28.

Do you accept my challenge? (King Fisher) Scene 4: See, where we carry on our mighty shoulder (Men)

3:49

Scene 5

29.

I needn't tell Madame Sosostris (King Fisher)

2:25

30.

Who hopes to conjure with the world of dreams (Sosostris)

2:54

31.

I alone alone cannot consult myself (Sosostris)

4:14

32.

You who consult me (Sosostris)

2:26

33.

I see a meadow (Sosostris)

3:30

Scene 6

34.

She saw what happens in the soul (Chorus)

5:02

Scene 7

35.

Pride is virtue in a man of power (The Ancients)

3:16

Scene 8

36.

(For a moment the stage is quite still) (Orchestra) King Fisher's dead (A man)

3:30

37.

(After The She Ancient returns up stage) (Orchestra) 4th Dance: Fire in Summer (Chorus)

8:68

Scene 9

38.

Was it a vision (Chorus)

2:12

39.

O summer sun, (Chorus)

1:27

40.

(The moonlight has faded out) (Orchestra)

6:19

Total time: 180:04

Solo: Alberto Remedios Mark, (tenor)

Solo: Joan Carlyle Jenifer, (soprano)

Solo: Raimund Herincx King Fisher, (baritone)

Solo: Elizabeth Harwood Bella, (soprano)

Solo: Stuart Burrows Jack, (tenor)

Solo: Helen Watts Sosostris, (contralto)

Solo: Stafford Dean The Ancients: Priest, (bass)

Solo: Elizabeth Bainbridge The Ancients: Priestess, (mezzo)

Half-Tipsy Man (baritone): David Whelan

A Dancing Man (tenor): Andrew Daniels

Mark's and Jenifer's friends: Chorus.

Choral: Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal opera House

Conductor: Sir Colin Davis

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