Hugh the Drover, or Love in the Stocks

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Hugh the Drover, or Love in the Stocks is a ballad opera in two acts by Ralph Vaughan Williams that blends English folk-song style with a romantic tale set during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ballad opera
opera
acts Act I
Act II
associatedComposer Ralph Vaughan Williams NERFINISHED
basedOn original story by Harold Child
catalogueNumber VWV 75 NERFINISHED
characterOccupation drover
composer Ralph Vaughan Williams NERFINISHED
composerNationality British
compositionEndYear 1914
compositionStartYear 1910
firstProfessionalProductionYear 1924
genre ballad opera
romantic opera
hasAlternativeTitle Hugh the Drover NERFINISHED
Love in the Stocks NERFINISHED
language English
librettist Harold Child NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Hugh NERFINISHED
Mary NERFINISHED
numberOfActs 2
orchestration orchestra
voices
plotElement boxing match
press-gang
romantic love story
stocks punishment
premiereCity London NERFINISHED
premiereCountry United Kingdom NERFINISHED
premiereDate 1924-07-04
premiereLanguage English
premiereLocation His Majesty's Theatre, London NERFINISHED
revisedInYear 1924
settingCountry England
settingPeriod Napoleonic Wars NERFINISHED
style English folk-song style
subjectMatter individual freedom
patriotism during war
rural English life
timePeriodOfComposition early 20th century
usesMaterial traditional English folk tunes

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Hugh the Drover hasAlternativeTitle Hugh the Drover, or Love in the Stocks