Opera in the Repertoire · Early Modern
Hugh the Drover
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams · premiered 1924 · at His Majesty's Theatre
Hugh the Drover (or Love in the Stocks) is an opera in two acts by Ralph Vaughan Williams to an original English libretto by Harold Child. The work has set numbers with recitatives. It has been described as a modern example of a ballad opera. Contemporary comment noted the use of humour and the role of the chorus in the work, in the context of developing English opera.
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About the Composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams is the composer of record for this opera.
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