Only Connect - Sir Michael Tippett <> Barbara Hepworth
How are these sitters connected?
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
by Martin Rose
1989
NPG 6043
Barbara Hepworth
by Barbara Hepworth
1950
NPG 5919
The connection
Barbara Hepworth designed the sets and costumes for the Covent Garden premiere of Michael Tippett’s 1954 opera The Midsummer Marriage.
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