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King Priam

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King Priam

Opera in three acts by Michael Tippett (libretto by the composer), first produced by the company of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, London, in Coventry, England, on 29 May 1962. It describes the judgement of Paris followed by the destruction of Troy.


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"My friend," answered Nestor, "you recall a time of much sorrow to my mind, for the brave Achaeans suffered much both at sea, while privateering under Achilles, and when fighting before the great city of king Priam.
The process requiring that Twemlow shall, for two hours after the application, allow his hair to stick upright and dry gradually, he is in an appropriate state for the receipt of startling intelligence; looking equally like the Monument on Fish Street Hill, and King Priam on a certain incendiary occasion not wholly unknown as a neat point from the classics.
 
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