Hugh the Drover

Hugh the Drover
Hugh the Drover
Opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Librettist	Harold Child
Language	English
Premiere	14 July 1924; His Majesty's Theatre, London

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.^[1] Contemporary comment noted the use of humour and the role of the chorus in the work, in the context of developing English opera.^[2]

^ William Kimmel, "Vaughan Williams' Choice of Words". Music & Letters, 19(2), 132–142 (1938).
^ Maisie Radford, "A Comparative Study of Indigenous Forms of Opera". Music & Letters, 7(2), 106–113 (1926).

[1] William Kimmel, "Vaughan Williams' Choice of Words". Music & Letters, 19(2), 132–142 (1938).

[2] Maisie Radford, "A Comparative Study of Indigenous Forms of Opera". Music & Letters, 7(2), 106–113 (1926).

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