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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first adapted as an opera in 1978 by the composer Richard Blackford on commission from the village of Blewbury, Oxfordshire.

The libretto was written for the adaptation by the children's novelist John Emlyn Edwards.

The ' Opera in Six Scenes ' was subsequently recorded by Decca between March and June 1979 and released on the Argo label in November 1979.