The Operas of Michael Tippett: English National Opera Guide 29

English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the libretto and illustrations. Although it is impossible to trace any one particular theme running through the operas of Michael Tippett, the libretti of his four operas are fascinating to compare. The dense allusions of The Midsummer Marriage (1955), here annotated, gave way to the classical formality of King Priam (1962); the psycho-analytical preoccup…