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

(excerpts only)

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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