Oliver, Stephen (1950–1992)

English composer. He studied electronic music with Robert Sherlaw Johnson at Oxford. The best known of his many operas and theatre pieces is Tom Jones, after Fielding, produced in Snape, Newcastle, and London in 1976. He was a popular teacher and broadcaster.

Works Opera and stage music Perseverance (1974), Bad Times (1975), The Great McPorridge Disaster (1976), The Duchess of Malfi (1971–77), The Dreaming of the Bones (1979), Nicholas Nickelby (1980), Blondel (1983), Britannia Preserv'd (1984), and Timon of Athens (1991).