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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instanceOf ballad opera ⓘ
opera ⓘ
acts Act I ⓘ
Act II ⓘ
associatedComposer Ralph Vaughan Williams ⓘ
basedOn original story by Harold Child ⓘ
catalogueNumber VWV 75 ⓘ
characterOccupation drover ⓘ
composer Ralph Vaughan Williams ⓘ
composerNationality British ⓘ
compositionEndYear 1914 ⓘ
compositionStartYear 1910 ⓘ
firstProfessionalProductionYear 1924 ⓘ
genre ballad opera ⓘ
romantic opera ⓘ
hasAlternativeTitle Hugh the Drover ⓘ
Love in the Stocks ⓘ
language English ⓘ
librettist Harold Child ⓘ
mainCharacter Hugh ⓘ
Mary ⓘ
numberOfActs 2 ⓘ
orchestration orchestra ⓘ
voices ⓘ
plotElement boxing match ⓘ
press-gang ⓘ
romantic love story ⓘ
stocks punishment ⓘ
premiereCity London ⓘ
linked to: London, England
premiereCountry United Kingdom ⓘ
premiereDate 1924-07-04 ⓘ
premiereLanguage English ⓘ
premiereLocation His Majesty's Theatre, London ⓘ
revisedInYear 1924 ⓘ
settingCountry England ⓘ
settingPeriod Napoleonic Wars ⓘ
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 ⓘ