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30/10/2010
Kathryn Stott tells how Michael Tippett inspired a depressed mining community in Cleveland with his very first opera Robin Hood. And 75 years later, local residents are reviving it.
The pianist Kathryn Stott tells the story of how, in 1934, the young Communist party member Michael Tippett inspired a depressed mining community in Cleveland with his very first opera, based on the legend of Robin Hood. The work has remained hidden with strict instructions that it never be performed again, but 75 years later residents of Boosbeck in east Cleveland have come together in an ambitious attempt to recreate the project - in the bar of the town's Station Hotel.
Producer: Celia Quartermain.
