The Pre-history of The Midsummer Marriage by Roger Savage - 9780367787820

The Pre-history of The Midsummer MarriageNarratives and Speculations\nAuthor(s): Roger Savage\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367787820, 978-0367787820\nSynopsis\nThe Pre-history of The Midsummer Marriage examines the early collaborative phase (1943 to 1946) in the making of Michael Tippetts first mature opera and charts the developments that grew out of that phase.\n\nDrawing on a fascinating group of Tippetts sketchbooks and a lengthy sequence of his letters to Douglas Newton, it helps construct a narrative of the Tippett-Newton collaboration and provides insights into the devising of the operas plot, both in that early phase and in the phase from 1946 onwards when Tippett went on with the project alone. \n\nThe book asks: who was Newton, and what kind of collaboration did he havethen cease to have with Tippett?\n\nWhat were the origins of and shaping factors behind the original scenario and libretto-drafts?\.