Instrumentation

Hugh the Drover (T); Mary (S); Aunt Jane (C); The Turnkey (T); The Constable (B); John the Butcher (B-Bar); A Sergeant (high Bar); A Showman (high Bar); A Ballad Seller (T); SATB Chorus (including various minor roles); non-singing characters - 2(I=picc).2.2.2 - 4231 - timp - perc(2): SD/BD/cyms/tgl/bells - harp - stringsOn stage: Cornet(=tpt).BD.picc.2 SD(tabor).bugleOff stage: horn(s).tuba or trbn (ad lib)

Availability

Vocal score 0571514081 on sale, full score and parts for hire.

Available from Faber Music in the following territories: UK, Eire, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Jamaica and South Africa.

Hugh The Drover (Orchestra/Chorus/Soloists)

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Harold Child

£85.50

Hugh the Drover

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National Centre for Early Music (York, United Kingdom)

York Opera, Alasdair Jamieson

Hugh the Drover

(excerpts only)

National Centre for Early Music (York, United Kingdom)

York Opera, Alasdair Jamieson

Hugh the Drover

Town Hall (Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom)

New Sussex Opera, Nicholas Jenkins, dir. Michael Moxham

Hugh the Drover

Connaught Theatre (Worthing, West Sussex, United Kingdom)

New Sussex Opera, Nicholas Jenkins, dir. Michael Moxham

Hugh the Drover

Cadogan Hall (London, United Kingdom)

New Sussex Opera, Nicholas Jenkins, dir. Michael Moxham

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'Hugh the Drover' reviews

'...I have an idea for an opera written to real words, with a certain amount of real English music and also a real English subject might just hit the nail right on the head...and the whole thing might be folk-sony-y in character, with a certain amount of real ballad stuff thrown in...an opera on more or less accepted lines and preferably a comedy, to be full of tunes, and lively, and one tune that will really come off.' From a letter to Harold Child (librettist), 1910
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