Meirion Bowen writes: Peter Hall played a key role in rescuing the reputation as an opera composer of Sir Michael Tippett, dismissed and mocked in the 1950s as bafflingly over-complex and bizarrely eccentric. Hall's direction of The Knot Garden in 1970 benefited above all from his experience as a director of Shakespearean drama, for this work was to a large extent a retelling of The Tempest. The Covent Garden product…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PM on September 15, 2017