03 Nov 2005
Midsummer Marriage
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14936-1852631,00.html
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Robert Thicknesse at Covent Garden [Times Online, 2 November 2005]
Covent Garden finally hauls itself aboard the Tippett centenary bandwagon with painful reluctance, but I really wish it hadn’t bothered. The Midsummer Marriage may not be the greatest opera, but it can’t possibly be as bad as this revival of Graham Vick’s 1996 production makes it look.