The Midsummer Marriage Opera in 3 acts 提佩特 仲夏結婚歌劇 總譜 歐伊倫堡版

與《魔笛》、《仲夏夜之夢》等少數其他戲劇作品一樣，蒂皮特的首部歌劇創造了一個完全不同的空間，在這裡，人類的行為就像在一面傾斜的鏡子中看到的一樣。由於這的確是一部歌劇，這個地方或夢境是由音樂營造出來的：通過流動的豐富音樂、光芒四射的和聲和令人回味的管樂色彩，代表了自然世界，而劇中人物必須將自己融入其中。每個人都只是半個人，在他們結合之前，他們必須成為一個完整的人，必須在自己的內心深處找到對對方的理解。負責監督他們的神話啟蒙和心靈治療的是兩位古人，他們是林中山頂上一座寺廟的信徒。正如莫札特的先例（作曲家當然也想到了這一點），劇中還有一對更普通的夫婦，傑克和貝拉。其他主角包括珍妮佛的商人父親費舍爾國王（他出於自己的原因想要阻止婚禮）和一位類似厄爾達的預言家。此外，還有一位舞蹈家斯特裡豐，他帶領著熱情奔放的芭蕾舞團，在管弦樂隊的伴奏下完成了這個關於啟蒙和激情的故事。這最終是愛的勝利，而在愛之前，則是自我認識的勝利（保羅-格里菲斯）"

作曲家: Tippett, Sir Michael
樂器: soloists, choir and orchestra
出版社: Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH

曲目:
Preface - Vorwort - Préface - The Birth of an Opera - Act I, II, III - Appendices: Authorised cuts -Correction list to first edition

原文簡介:
Like few other theatre works—The Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night’s Dream—Tippett’s first opera creates a wholly other place, one where human actions can be seen as in a tilted mirror. Since this is indeed an opera, the place, or dreamspace, is conjured by music: by luminescent music that, in its flowing abundance, radiant harmonies and evocative wind colourings, represents the natural world within which the characters have to integrate themselves.The central couple, those whose marriage is at first subverted and then gloriously celebrated, are Mark and Jenifer: he a young man of the earth and the senses, she a young woman of lofty spirituality. Each is only half a person, and before they can be united they have to be made whole, have to find within themselves an understanding of the other. Overseeing their mythic initiation and psychic healing are two Ancients, votaries of a temple on a wooded hilltop.As in the Mozart precedent, which the composer certainly had in mind, there is also a more workaday couple, Jack and Bella. The other principals are Jenifer’s businessman father King Fisher, who wants to stop the wedding for reasons of his own, and an Erda-like seer. There is also a dancer, Strephon, leading the exuberant ballet in which the orchestra completes the story of enlightenment and passion. It is ultimately a victory of love and, before love, self-knowledge.(Paul Griffiths)