The Midsummer Marriage Opera in 3 acts 提佩特 仲夏结婚歌剧 总谱 欧伊伦堡版

与《魔笛》、《仲夏夜之梦》等少数其他戏剧作品一样，蒂皮特的首部歌剧创造了一个完全不同的空间，在这里，人类的行为就像在一面倾斜的镜子中看到的一样。由于这的确是一部歌剧，这个地方或梦境是由音乐营造出来的：通过流动的丰富音乐、光芒四射的和声和令人回味的管乐色彩，代表了自然世界，而剧中人物必须将自己融入其中。每个人都只是半个人，在他们结合之前，他们必须成为一个完整的人，必须在自己的内心深处找到对对方的理解。负责监督他们的神话启蒙和心灵治疗的是两位古人，他们是林中山顶上一座寺庙的信徒。正如莫扎特的先例（作曲家当然也想到了这一点），剧中还有一对更普通的夫妇，杰克和贝拉。其他主角包括珍妮弗的商人父亲费舍尔国王（他出于自己的原因想要阻止婚礼）和一位类似厄尔达的预言家。此外，还有一位舞蹈家斯特里丰，他带领着热情奔放的芭蕾舞团，在管弦乐队的伴奏下完成了这个关于启蒙和激情的故事。这最终是爱的胜利，而在爱之前，则是自我认识的胜利（保罗-格里菲斯）"

作曲家: Tippett, Sir Michael
乐器: 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

原文简介:
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)