BBC: Michael Tippett
Includes profile, photographs, links, RAM format audio of radio interviews.
ClassicalPlus Composer - Michael Tippett
Biography and list of works.
Michael Tippett
Homage from the Peace Pledge Union after its president Michael Tippett died. Biography is mingled with interpretation as his long-time pacifism is explained and promoted.
Michael Tippett
Filmography at IMDb listing movies and television shows based upon his operas or otherwise using his compositions.
Michael Tippett
Wikipedia entry with biography and summary of musical style, genres, and overall output plus internal references to related people and topics and external links.
Michael Tippett
Entry at the Lied and Art Songs Text Page with list of vocal works and links to public domain texts.
Michael Tippett
Filmography noting original scores, filmed operatic works, and credit as librettist from the Internet Movie Database.
Michael Tippett
Article from the Lesbian and Gay Knitting Circle of South Bank (UK) University. Includes life, works, bibliography, and press clippings, including obituary remarks.
Michael Tippett (1905-1998)
Brief biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of operas and orchestral, vocal and choral, and chamber music with Naxos discography.
Michael Tippett 1905-1998
Memorial essay from The Musical Times dwells on his style, ideas, ideals, his dependence upon self, and the inspiration and effects of his compositions.
Midsummer Marriage, The
Composer, librettist, and first performance listings, characters and their vocal ranges, and plot summary.
Sir Michael Tippett
Official site. Biography, list of compositions, transcriptions and arrangements, discography, operas, writings about and by him. Also Tippett Foundation information and tributes.
Sir Michael Tippett
Tore Steenslid tribute includes his own writings about the composer with those of others. Includes reflections, interview, study of his operas, CD reviews, photographs, and related links.
Sir Michael Tippett
Interview from the January 1975 issue of Hi-Fi News and Record Review. As his 70th birthday drew near, he mused on the state of opera, symphonic music, the burden of being artistic, and his place in the cosmos.
Sir Michael Tippett
Biography from the City of Birmingham (England) Choir. Includes comments on various choral works, especially those performed by the choir.
Sir Michael Tippett
Obituary and commentary from The Society of Recorder Players upon the death of its long-time president. Notes his influence on the instrument's popularity in England.
Sir Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998)
An essay written by David Wright (originally in 1976) examines his personality and political leanings, showing how he could make polar changes in brief periods of time.
Sir Michael Tippett: Interview
David Peat in conversation with Sir Michael. The composer talks about the act of composition, the nature of his creativity, the importance of Carl Jung in his work, and various other aspects of his personal spirituality.
The Midsummer Marriage
Opera World essay by John J. Church traces the Tippett work from its critically assailed first performance to being hailed as a masterpiece of modern music.
Tippett, Sir Michael Kemp
Entry from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music at WQXR radio includes life, list of works, and special attention on his symphonic and operatic works.