Judith Weir’s The Vanishing Bridegroom could be described as a triptych of miniature operas, as three distinct stories are drawn together into one piece. Unlike Puccini’s Il trittico, perhaps the most famous triptych, in this collection the main narrative flows between the three stories with the use of the main characters in different roles, so a bridegroom becomes a husband, and later a father.
The stories used in this work are all originally drawn from the tales from the Gaelic oral tradition, and collected for Weir’s opera from Popular Tales of the West Highlands, edited by J.F. Campbell
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