In the second act of an opera by this composer, a character sings the song "O rich-soiled land" accompanied only by a solo guitar.
In the second act of an opera by this composer, a character sings the song "O rich-soiled land" accompanied only by a solo guitar. An otter chases a fish in the second of four "Ritual Dances" performed by a group of dancers led by Strephon in another opera by this man. He used the structure of Mozart's Magic Flute as the model for an opera in which King Fisher enlists Madame Sosostris in his efforts to forestall the marriage of Jenifer and Mark. Another opera by this man premiered at the reconsecrated Coventry Cathedral a day before Britten's War Requiem and depicts its title character being guided by Hermes to Achilles's tent. This composer of The Midsummer Marriage and King Priam wrote a secular choral work about the aftermath of Herschel Grynszpan's assassination of Ernst vom Rath. For 10 points, name this British composer of the Kristallnacht-inspired oratorio A Child of Our Time.
In the second act of an opera by this composer, a character sings the song "O rich-soiled land" accompanied only by a solo guitar.
Michael  Tippett [or Sir Michael Kemp  Tippett]