Premiered in 1924 which British composer wrote me musk for the opera 'Hugh the Drover'?
Hugh the Drover Hugh the Drover Hugh the Drover (or "Love in the Stocks") is an opera in two acts by Ralph Vaughan Williams to an original English libretto by Harold Child. The work has set numbers with recitatives. It has been described as a modern example of a ballad opera. Contemporary comment noted the use of humour and the role of the chorus in the work, in the context of developing English opera. According to Michael Kennedy, the composer took first inspiration for the opera from this question to Bruce Richmond, editor of "The Times Literary Supplement", around 1909–1910: Vaughan Williams worked
Hugh the Drover on the opera for a number of years, before and after World War I. The work did not receive its first performance until 4 July 1924 at the Royal College of Music, London, in performances described as "private dress rehearsals". The "professional premiere" was at His Majesty's Theatre, London, on 14 July 1924. The opera's first performance in the United States took place on 21 February 1928 under the auspices of the Washington National Opera, a semi-professional company not related to its present namesake. Tudor Davies created the role of Hugh in both these productions. The opera was performed by