Ivanhoe (opera)




 
This article is about Sullivan's opera. For Scott's novel, see Ivanhoe. For other uses, see Ivanhoe (disambiguation).
Illustration of scene from Ivanhoe in The Graphic, 1891

Ivanhoe is a romantic opera in three acts based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott, with music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by Julian Sturgis. It premiered at the Royal English Opera House on 31 January 1891 for a consecutive run of 155 performances, unheard of for a grand opera.1 Later that year it was performed six more times, for a total of 161 performances.2

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Background

After the days of Michael Balfe and his contemporaries, the fashion in London, led by the Prince of Wales, was for opera houses to present mostly imported operas from Italy, France and Germany. English opera went into decline, and no through-composed operas were written in England after 1844 until 1874.3 After this, a few English composers wrote new operas in English, some with English themes, and the Carl Rosa Opera Company produced many of these in the late 1870s and 1880s.4 Arthur Sullivan had long dreamed of writing a grand opera in what he called an "eclectic" style that would build on the existing European styles. In an 1885 interview, he said:

"The opera of the future is a compromise. I have thought and worked and toiled and dreamt of it. Not the French school, with gaudy and tinsel tunes, its lambent lights and shades, its theatrical effects and clap-trap; not the Wagnerian school, with its somberness and heavy ear-splitting airs, with its mysticism and unreal sentiment; not the Italian school, with its fantastic airs and fioriture and far-fetched effects. It is a compromise between these three – a sort of eclectic school, a selection of the merits of each one. I myself will make an attempt to produce a grand opera of this new school. ... Yes, it will be an historical work, and it is the dream of my life. I do not believe in opera based on gods and myths. That is the fault of the German school. It is metaphysical music – it is philosophy. What we want are plots that give rise to characters of flesh and blood, with human emotions and human passions. Music should speak to the heart, and not to the head. Such a work as I contemplate will take some time."5
Standard programme cover

During the late 1870s and through the 1880s, Richard D'Oyly Carte had earned great success by producing the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. By the late 1880s, perhaps encouraged by the operas produced by Carl Rosa,6 Carte aspired to do for grand opera what he had done for comic opera, with the assistance of Arthur Sullivan, who had long yearned to compose more serious works.3 In May 1888, Sullivan noted in his diary that, after a performance of his cantata The Golden Legend given at Albert Hall by command of Queen Victoria, the queen said to him, "You ought to write a grand opera – you would do it so well!"7 Carte began building the Royal English Opera House in December 1888, and he commissioned Sullivan to write the venture's inaugural work.4 George Bernard Shaw wondered, in August 1889, about the wisdom of building a new opera house when the three existing ones (Royal Opera House, Her Majesty's Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), were underutilised.8 During 1890, Carte contacted several composers, including Frederick Cowen, asking them to compose operas to succeed Ivanhoe in the new house.4

Sullivan asked his usual collaborator, W. S. Gilbert to supply the libretto for a grand opera, but Gilbert declined, writing that in grand opera the librettist's role is subordinate to that of the composer, and that the public would, in any case, not accept a serious work from his pen. Gilbert recommended Julian Sturgis to write the libretto. Sturgis had written the libretto for Nadeshda by Arthur Goring Thomas (1885), which had been produced with success by Carl Rosa.7 Ivanhoe had been treated operatically previously, including an 1826 pastiche opera with music by Rossini and operas by Marschner in 1829, Pacini in 1832 and Nicolai in 1840. Both Sullivan and the critics noted that Scott's novel, with its many scenes, would make for a complex adaptation.9 Sturgis set to work on Ivanhoe in the spring or early summer of 1889. The libretto uses some of the language directly from the novel and does not change the basic story. However, in condensing the lengthy and action-packed novel for a stage work, the libretto relies on the audience's knowledge of the novel and omits many scenes, also entirely omitting the characters of Gurth the Swineherd, Oswald, Cedric's manservant, some of King John's advisors, and Athelstane the Unready, among others.7 Richard Traubner, writes in Opera News, that "Sturgis's libretto, given his quotes from Scott and the quasi-medieval English, is still sketchy, and the complex story does not really move forward with any operatic satisfaction."10

While Sturgis worked on Ivanhoe, Sullivan was composing The Gondoliers, with a libretto by Gilbert, for the Savoy Theatre. After The Gondoliers opened and Sullivan took his annual holiday in Monte Carlo, he finally began the composition of Ivanhoe in May 1890, finishing the score in December 1890. Chorus rehearsals for Ivanhoe began in November, with Alfred Cellier as chorus master, and his brother François Cellier became musical director of the new theatre.11 In April 1890, Gilbert challenged Carte over partnership expenses at the Savoy Theatre, including a new carpet for the lobby. To Gilbert's surprise and indignation, Sullivan sided with Carte – after all, Carte was producing his opera – and Gilbert sued Carte and Sullivan in May. The lawsuit was ongoing during much of the period of composition of Ivanhoe, and Sullivan wrote to Gilbert in September 1890 that he was "physically and mentally ill over this wretched business. I have not yet got over the shock of seeing our names coupled ... in hostile antagonism over a few miserable pounds".12 Sullivan completed the score too late to meet Carte's planned production date, and costs mounted as the producer had to pay performers, crew and others, while the theatre sat empty. Sullivan was required to pay Carte a contractual penalty of £3,000 for his delay.1314

Production and aftermath

Hawes Craven's scenery for Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe and The Royal English Opera House opened on 31 January 1891, with the Prince and Princess of Wales and other members of the royal family in attendance.15 The production was lavish: An orchestra of 64 players, 72 choristers and 120 supernumeraries were employed. Percy Anderson designed the costumes, Hawes Craven and others designed the sets, staging was by Hugh Moss, and François Cellier and Ernest Ford alternated as conductors. Ford also arranged the piano score for Ivanhoe.11 In the opening night programme, Carte set forth his goals:

I am endeavouring to establish English Grand Opera at the New Theatre which I have built.... Whether [the experiment] will succeed or not depends on whether there is a sufficient number of persons interested in music and the drama who will come forward and fill the theatre.... I have made arrangements with other distinguished composers and authors to write operas to follow Ivanhoe, which operas will be produced if the enterprise is a pecuniary success. The intention is to 'run' each opera, that is to say, to play it six times a week, at any rate at first. This is the only way in which the expenditure necessary to secure a proper representation in the matter of scenery and costumes can be recouped.... It rests with [the public] whether a National Opera House shall be established on a permanent basis or not.12

Thus, departing from the usual practice for grand opera to be presented in repertory, Carte presented Ivanhoe every night, with alternative singers being provided for the chief roles - not as separate 'first' and 'second' casts, but in different mixtures.16 One cast member who went on to a fine career was the young tenor, Joseph O'Mara, in the title role. R. Scott Fishe, a member of the chorus, later became a principal performer with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy Theatre. No expense was spared to make the production a success, including "every imaginable effect of scenic splendour".17 The opera ran for an unprecedented 155 consecutive performances1210 and had strong revenues at first. It received very favourable press, with a few reports expressing reservations about the libretto. Of more than a dozen opening night reviews, only Shaw's and Fuller Maitland's reviews were negative.18

Souvenir of 100th performance

Ivanhoe closed in July, when the opera house closed for the summer at the end of the opera season. When the house re-opened in November, after a delay, Carte produced André Messager's La Basoche (with David Bispham in his first London stage performance) alternating in repertory with six more performances of Ivanhoe (which ran at a substantial loss this time), and then La Basoche alone, closing in January 1892. Though praised, La Basoche could not fill the large house, and losses were mounting. Carte had commissioned new operas from Cowen, Herman Bemberg, Hamish MacCunn and Goring Thomas. Although Bemberg's opera Elaine was finished, and Cowen's Signa would be completed in March, Carte evidently had decided that producing these would be impracticable or too expensive and that he could not make a success of the new house.19 The Pall Mall Gazette wrote, "The question, then, uppermost is whether Londoners really want English opera at all.... Mr D'Oyly Carte is to be pitied, and it is hard to see how he can continue to throw his operatic pearls before those who do not value them. After all, the Englishman's opera-house is the music-hall."20

Notwithstanding Ivanhoe's initial success, the opera house was a failure, and later writers unfairly blamed Ivanhoe for this failure. It was, as critic Herman Klein observed, "the strangest comingling of success and failure ever chronicled in the history of British lyric enterprise!"21 Sir Henry Wood, who had been répétiteur for the production of Ivanhoe, recalled in his autobiography that "[if] Carte had had a repertory of six operas instead of only one, I believe he would have established English opera in London for all time. Towards the end of the run of Ivanhoe I was already preparing the Flying Dutchman with Eugène Oudin in the name part. He would have been superb. However, plans were altered and the Dutchman was shelved."22 After a season of performances by Sarah Bernhardt, Carte was forced to sell the theatre. A consortium led by Sir Augustus Harris purchased the house, renaming it the Palace Music Hall and later the Palace Theatre of Varieties. The building is known today as the Palace Theatre.23

There was a successful touring revival of Ivanhoe by the Carl Rosa Opera Company from December 1894 to June 1895 in a cut version (the opera originally ran almost four hours) and then again in the autumn of 1895, and a production in Berlin in November 1895 that generated no further interest. A concert performance was given at the Crystal Palace in 1903.24 Then, apart from two performances in Sir Thomas Beecham's 1910 season at the Royal Opera House, Ivanhoe disappeared from the professional repertory. The opera was broadcast twice on BBC Radio in 1929, with the London Wireless Orchestra conducted by Percy Pitt, who had conducted the 1910 performances. Stanford Robinson conducted another broadcast between the wars.23 The few modern performances of the music have included a concert by the Boston Academy of Music on 23 November 1991.25

Roles and original cast

Drawing of scenes from Ivanhoe
Gilbert, depicted as feeling left out.

Below are listed the roles in the opera. Alternative singers were provided for the chief roles - not as separate 'first' and 'second' casts, but in different mixtures:

Synopsis

In 1891, the audience knew Scott's best-selling novel intimately. Sullivan and Sturgis relied on this fact, and so the opera intentionally dramatises disconnected scenes from the book and does not attempt to retell the whole story. This presents a challenge to modern audiences who may be far less familiar with the story.26

Act I

Scene 1: The Hall of Cedric of Rotherwood. Evening.

As Cedric's men prepare supper, he laments the King's many journeys abroad, the scurrilous behaviour of the Norman knights, and the absence of his estranged son, Ivanhoe. Isaac of York, a Jew, enters and asks for shelter. Although Cedric considers Isaac's race accursed, he will not refuse Saxon hospitality. A squire announces Sir Brian de Bois Guilbert, of the Knights Templar, and Maurice de Bracy, a knight and advisor to Prince John, who are on their way to a Royal tournament at Ashby de la Zouche. They are Normans, and Cedric, a Saxon, loathes them. However, they too are granted hospitality. Ivanhoe is with them, in disguise. De Bracy asks after Cedric's fair ward, Rowena. Cedric replies hotly that his ward will only marry a Saxon. Ivanhoe tells of a tournament he witnessed in the Holy Land where the English knights soundly defeated the Templars. Sir Brian was beaten by Ivanhoe, whom he wishes to challenge again. Rowena and the disguised Ivanhoe, whom no one recognises, assure Sir Brian that Ivanhoe will meet his challenge. After Rowena exits, Sir Brian and de Bracy agree that they will abduct her after the tournament at Ashby.

Scene 2: An Ante-Chamber in the Hall at Rotherwood

Rowena laments the absence of her lover, Ivanhoe. He enters, still disguised as a holy palmer. She tells him that she hopes to be with Ivanhoe again. Ivanhoe tells Isaac that he has overheard Sir Brian planning to seize him the next day. Isaac promises to equip Ivanhoe (whom he recognises as a knight) with a horse and armour, and Ivanhoe in turn promises that, if they fly Cedric's hall directly, Isaac will be safe with him. They leave for the tournament at Ashby.

Scene 3: The Tournament at Ashby

Richard Green as Prince John

At the tournament, King Richard, disguised as the Black Knight, has made a great impression with his victories. Prince John enters with Rowena, who has been named Queen of Beauty for the tournament. The Prince shrugs off a message that his brother, the King, has escaped from France. The Prince asks for challengers to the Norman knights. Ivanhoe, now in disguise as the Disinherited Knight, challenges Sir Brian. In a fierce clash, Ivanhoe again defeats Sir Brian, but is himself wounded. Ignoring Ivanhoe's protest, a Herald removes his helmet at Prince John's command so that he may be crowned victor of the tournament, and he is recognised by Cedric and Rowena.

Act II

Scene 1: Friar Tuck's Hut, in the Forest at Copmanhurst

King Richard, who is in hiding after his escape, shares a feast with Friar Tuck and challenges him to a song contest. The King sings "I ask nor wealth nor courtier's praise", while the Friar sings "Ho, jolly Jenkin" (which is the most popular detached excerpt from the opera). Locksley (Robin Hood) enters with the urgent message that Cedric and Rowena have been captured by de Bracy and Sir Brian, and the wounded Ivanhoe, travelling with Isaac and his beautiful daughter Rebecca, have also been captured. All are imprisoned at Torquilstone. The King, Locksley, Friar Tuck and all the outlaws rush off to rescue them.

Scene 2: A Passageway in Torquilstone

Cedric and Rowena are prisoners, and De Bracy plans to forcibly marry her. De Bracy tells them that Ivanhoe, Isaac and Rebecca, are also prisoners. He promises that Ivanhoe will be safe if Rowena and Cedric comply with his wishes. Cedric is prepared to sacrifice Ivanhoe, but Rowena begs him to be merciful to them, as well as to Ivanhoe. She appeals to his honour, as a Knight and, begging him to save Ivanhoe, she promises to pray for de Bracy. After they have left, Sir Brian enters, and declares passionately his intention to woo, and win, Rebecca.

Scene 3: A Turret Chamber in Torquilstone

Ulrica warns Rebecca that she faces an evil and dark fate, and that death is the only path to safety. The despondent Rebecca prays for God's protection. Sir Brian enters, intent on winning Rebecca. He asks her to submit to him, promising to raise her to the throne of kings and to cover her with jewels. She utterly rejects him and leaps on the parapet, threatening to jump. A bugle sounds, heralding the arrival of King Richard and his forces. Sir Brian rushes off to defend the castle.

Act III

First night souvenir programme cover

Scene 1: A Room in Torquilstone

Ivanhoe, pale and weak from his wounds, thinks of his love for Rowena, and falls asleep. Rebecca, who is in love with Ivanhoe, enters to tend him. When they hear distant trumpets, Rebecca goes to a window and describes the unfolding battle to the frustrated Ivanhoe, who complains that he is unable to participate. Ulrica sets the castle on fire. Sir Brian enters and carries off Rebecca. Ivanhoe is unable to protect her. At the last minute, King Richard enters the chamber and rescues Ivanhoe from the conflagration.

Scene 2: In the Forest

King Richard and Ivanhoe rest in a forest. De Bracy has been captured. The King sends him to Prince John with an ultimatum to surrender. Cedric and Rowena appear. At the King's urging, Cedric is reconciled with Ivanhoe and agrees to Ivanhoe's marriage with Rowena. Isaac enters in haste. The Templars have accused Rebecca of witchcraft for supposedly bewitching the Christian Knight to betray his Order and his vows, and making him fall in love with an accursed Jewess. They have sentenced her to burn at the stake. Ivanhoe rushes out to rescue her.

Scene 3: The Preceptory of the Templars, Templestowe

The funeral pyre has been built. Rebecca will be burned at the stake unless a champion is willing to fight for her. Sir Brian urges them to relent, but the Templars take his irrational passion as further evidence of her witchcraft. Sir Brian offers to save her if she will agree to be his, but Rebecca refuses. Rebecca is bound to the stake. The exhausted Ivanhoe arrives with his sword drawn, offering to fight for her. Rebecca tries to dissuade him, fearing that the wounded knight cannot prevail. Sir Brian attacks Ivanhoe, who appears to be beaten. But as Sir Brian is about to strike the fatal blow, he falls dead, unable to survive the evil passions warring in his soul. The Templars regard this as proof of God's judgement and Rebecca's innocence, and she is freed. She gazes wistfully at Ivanhoe as he is reunited with Rowena, who has entered with Cedric and King Richard. The King banishes the Templars from English soil.

Music

The Gramophone calls Ivanhoe "one of the most important works in the history of British opera."27 The Gramophone quoted conductor David Lloyd-Jones as saying that in writing the opera,

"Sullivan ... was very much in touch with all the music of his time.... There are bits which are definitely Wagnerian: the use of dotted rhythms, always in 4/4 time – you get the whiff of Meistersinger or Lohengrin, I think. There is, also, for example, a remarkable duet at the end of Act 2, I would say Verdian in its sweep. There are, of course, the stand-up arias, never a full ensemble until right at the end. Rebecca's aria is a very interesting piece. Whenever she is singing he uses the cor anglais to stress the sort of Eastern quality, and Sullivan claimed that this theme was one he had heard as a student in Leipzig, when he had attended a service at the Synagogue there. You can tell, and he quickly establishes it in the music, that he was not writing an operetta! Look at this, very early on, some virtuoso stuff. It needs a really accomplished orchestra. He had always been cramped by the small orchestra, only ever one oboe, that he had to make do with at the Savoy. Here he was really able to expand, you can feel it in the music."27

Richard Traubner, writing in Opera News, disagrees: "Ivanhoe ... reflects the ballad-rich British grand operas Sullivan grew up with, by Balfe (The Bohemian Girl) or Wallace (Maritana). The skill and flair Sullivan exhibits in the Savoy operettas in humor, gaiety and superb word-setting are barely required in Ivanhoe. It sounds instead like an extension of the hoary oratorio form popular in Victorian Britain ... with its plethora of hymn-like numbers interspersed with ballads of no particular interest and some strong ensembles." Traubner continues, "Sullivan's score would have been wonderful for a film, with its numerous Korngoldian fanfares and stirring, very English-national choruses. The long drinking scene in Act I, with its 'Glory to those who fight for the true Cross', and the 'Ho, Jolly Jenkin' ensemble with Friar Tuck, also referring to drinking, are the most exciting things in the opera. Sadly, the dramatic arias required for an opera to achieve universal popularity are largely absent. ... Rebecca's prayer does have a certain Near Eastern aroma".10

Recordings and books

There have been few recordings of the opera. A 1989 recording was made by The Prince Consort.28 A 1995 hour-long "compressed version" was recorded and presented by Roderic Dunnett (the Opera Now magazine reviewer) for his BBC Radio 3 Britannia at the Opera series.29 Beyond that, a 1998 CD, Sullivan & Co.: The Operas That Got Away features two songs from the opera,30 and two of the soprano arias were recorded by Deborah Riedel with Richard Bonynge and the Opera Australia orchestra on The Power of Love - British Opera Arias (1999, Melba MR 30110).

Cover of 2010 CD

The first complete, fully-professional recording of Ivanhoe was released in February 2010, with David Lloyd-Jones conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, on the Chandos Records label.27 The cast features Toby Spence, Neal Davies, Geraldine McGreevy and Janice Watson.3132 The BBC's review of the album concludes, "This new account, boasting a strong cast of top British singers, is thoroughly committed, with vibrant playing from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under the steady hand of David Lloyd-Jones. There are a few passages where inspiration seems to flag – either from composer or conductor – but in general this is a terrific achievement. From the lively pomp of the jousting scene, with its brilliant double chorus, to moments of exquisite tenderness and passion, to thrilling battles and powerful drama, this recording makes a compelling case for a monumental work that deserves a modern audience."33 The album charted at #5 on the Specialist Classical Chart for the week ending 6 February 201034 Andrew Lamb wrote in The Gramophone that the success of the recording is due to Lloyd-Jones's "dramatic pacing", that the three key roles of Ivanhoe, Rebecca and Sir Brian are well cast.35 Raymond Walker agreed: "David Lloyd-Jones must be congratulated for the energetic pace he sets, never rushed but always advancing in a purposeful way." He also praised the singers and chorus.36 Richard Traubner was a dissenting voice. Though he praised the singers, he felt that many of the tempi were too rushed.10

In 2007, the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society published a booklet containing information about the opera including original articles, contemporary reviews and news articles.37 In 2008, a book was published about Ivanhoe and its 19th century "precursors" by Jeff S. Dailey, based on his 2002 doctoral dissertation for New York University. Dailey offers explanations of why Scott's novels, Ivanhoe in particular, were frequently adapted. He discusses the text and music of the opera. In the chapter on criticism of the opera (Chapter 9), he notes that Ivanhoe received generally favourable reviews early on, except from George Bernard Shaw, but that later critics, some of whom probably never saw the work, tended to be dismissive.29

In 2008, Robin Gordon-Powell edited a full score and orchestral parts for the opera, published by The Amber Ring. Since the original performance materials were destroyed in the 1964 fire at the Chappell & Co. warehouse, an authentic score and parts had not been available. This score was used by Chandos in the 2010 recording.3839

Notes

  1. ^ a b Ivanhoe at The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive. This has been surpassed only by Broadway's 2003 production of La bohème.
  2. ^ a b Dailey, Chapter 7
  3. ^ a b Gordon-Powell, Robin. Ivanhoe, full score, Introduction, vol. I, pp. VII to VIII, 2008, The Amber Ring
  4. ^ a b c Lamb (1973), p. 475
  5. ^ "Sir Arthur Sullivan: A Talk With the Composer of Pinafore", San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 1885
  6. ^ According to critic Herman Klein, the operas produced by Carl Rosa raised "a general feeling that an era of prosperity had dawned for opera which would be British through and through". See Klein, The Golden Age of Opera, 1933, quoted in Lamb, p. 475
  7. ^ a b c Gordon-Powell, Robin. Ivanhoe, full score, Introduction, vol. I, p. IX, 2008, The Amber Ring
  8. ^ Shaw, G. B. The Star, 16 August 1889
  9. ^ Lamb (1973), p. 476
  10. ^ a b c d Traubner, Richard. "Sullivan: Ivanhoe". Opera News, June 2010 – Vol. 74, No. 12
  11. ^ a b Gordon-Powell, Robin. Ivanhoe, full score, Introduction, vol. I, p. X, 2008, The Amber Ring
  12. ^ a b Lamb (1973), p. 477
  13. ^ Jacobs, pp. 328–29
  14. ^ Ainger, p. 322
  15. ^ Gordon-Powell, Robin. Ivanhoe, full score, Introduction, vol. I, p. XI, 2008, The Amber Ring
  16. ^ Jacobs, Arthur, Arthur Sullivan: A Victorian Musician. Oxford University Press (1984)
  17. ^ "Hesketh Pearson, Gilbert and Sullivan
  18. ^ Gordon-Powell, Robin. Ivanhoe, full score, Introduction, vol. I, p. XII, 2008, The Amber Ring
  19. ^ Gordon-Powell, Robin. Ivanhoe, full score, Introduction, vol. I, p. XII–XIII, 2008, The Amber Ring
  20. ^ ''The Pall Mall Gazette, 16 January 1892
  21. ^ Hermann Klein's 1903 description of Ivanhoe
  22. ^ My Life of Music, Victor Gollancz Ltd, London (1938)
  23. ^ a b Lamb (1973), p. 478
  24. ^ Gordon-Powell, Robin. Ivanhoe, full score, Introduction, vol. I, p. XIV, 2008, The Amber Ring
  25. ^ Dailey
  26. ^ Borthwick, Alan. Introduction to Ivanhoe, The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
  27. ^ a b c O’Connor, Patrick. "The serious comedian", The Gramophone, February 2010, pp. 42–45
  28. ^ Information about the Prince Consort recordings
  29. ^ a b Walker, Raymond J. Review: Sir Arthur Sullivan's Grand Opera Ivanhoe and its Theatrical and Musical Precursors, by Jeff S. Dailey, MusicWebInternational, 8 September 2008
  30. ^ Shepherd, Marc. Discussion of recordings of Ivanhoe and songs from the opera at A Gilbert and Sullivan Discography
  31. ^ Lloyd-Jones taking over as conductor of Ivanhoe
  32. ^ 2010 recording of Ivanhoe, accessed 8 February 2010
  33. ^ Sir Arthur Sullivan, Ivanhoe, BBC Music Reviews, 8 February 2010
  34. ^ Specialist Classical Chart, The Gramophone, 6 February 2010
  35. ^ Lamb, Andrew. "Sullivan: Ivanhoe", The Gramophone, March 2010, p. 89
  36. ^ Walker, Raymond. "Review Recording of the Month: Ivanhoe". MusicWeb International, 10 February 2010
  37. ^ "The G & S Library Shelf", The Trumpet Bray, Vol. 32, No. 3, November 2007
  38. ^ Sullivan editions at Christopher Browne's Gilbert & Sullivan Online Catalogue
  39. ^ Ivanhoe score, ed. Gordon-Powell, Robin Full Score, 2008 The Amber Ring

References

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G. Paul Padillo
Sullivan's Ivanhoe has been issued by Chandos!
Greg mentions that in "Ivanhoe" Sir Arthur seemed to abandon melody . . . but I strongly disagree, though we may need to redefine "type" of melody. I feel that what we have with Sir Arthrur here is a composer at the absolute zenith of ...
Jon Alan Conrad
Sullivan's Ivanhoe has been issued by Chandos!
On Feb 19, 2010, at 1:06 PM, LSAutog@AOL.COM wrote: > Thanks for this post, I didn't know about this. Alas, it's > apparently not > on iTunes which is almost the only way I buy anything new these days. ...
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Sullivan's Ivanhoe has been issued by Chandos!
One has to wonder why Sullivan's serious music (like Ivanhoe) lacks the wonderful melodies that he wrote so engagingly for the G&S works. It's almost as if he felt melody was out of place in serious works, something I'm sure Verdi would ...
Mike Begley
Sullivan's Ivanhoe has been issued by Chandos!
I agree that it lacks the delight of the Savoy operas (though it is a "Grand Romantic Opera" and not a "Comic Opera"). But, for me, it reveals a tremendous potential that makes even sadder its singularity. I was especially struck by the ...
Rich Lowenthal
Sullivan's Ivanhoe has been issued by Chandos!
I have been listening to the Chandos recording; it has good performances and is worthwhile, but I don't think it will lead anyone to re-evaluate Ivanhoe's place in Sullivan's oeuvre; it lacks the inspiration and sheer delight of ...
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Sullivan's Ivanhoe has been issued by Chandos!
I see that Sir Arthur Sullivan's one opera Ivanhoe has finally received a major recording. The cast features Janice Watson, Geraldine McGreevy, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence, Neal Davies, Stephen Gadd, James Rutherford, Peter Wedd, ...
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Los Discos Del Hombre Polilla: Burnin' Red Ivanhoe - M144
15. Oyizl Disc 2 01. Ivanhoe In The Woods 02. Ida Verlaine 03. Sensitive Plant 04. Inside 05. Ksilioy 06. Opera 07. Ornegnens Poesi 08. Fodelandssoldatersang 09. Why Don't You Trust 10. Purple Hearts 11. Kai (1997) [Download - Disc 1] ...
sxchristopher
Talking Again
It was the only I evidence of art I remember from the house, but my brother reminded me that my grandmother would listen to recordings of opera, and our granduncle had books like Ivanhoe and The Brothers Karamazov in the single bookcase ...
J L Speranza
Baron Webber does Grand Opera
That would explain "The White Woman": Lord Webber's attempt at Ivanhoe. I actually love Sir Andrew, and I think it's excellent that he keeps the "Mercato del Fieno" (or Haymarket" as the castrati of the day were unable to pronounce) ...
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Artist ROSSINI G. Title IVANHOE COMP OPERA UPC# 675754548827. Release Date 10/22/2002. Media Format CD BALABANOVA/EDWARDS/MORACE/
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June Issue Of Opera News Magazine - Summer Music Festivals In The USA
The CD reviews feature a review of "Ivanhoe ", the only full-length grand opera by Sir Arthur Sullivan, without Gilbert , the frothy Offenbach operetta Vert-Vert , and the religious oratorio Golgotha by the Swiss composer Frank Martin ...
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Stream Ivanhoe Movie Online
This is really a astronomical version — I contemplate it's hands down the best Ivanhoe! — and gargantuan fun, plus it's improbable to glance Olivia Hussey. (The newer A&E production is pleasing friendly, but the lead actor is so bland ...
donald kane
Adapting Scott-Was Ivanhoe (and is again)
As always, time will tell; a lot of time has passed since Sullivan produced his *serious* opera, while, as you say, his non-serious ones created a new genre. Does that mean that WS Gilbert ranks higher than Scott as a [...]
Zachary Bos
Notes on my notes; or, following the foolish fire
The opera Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák. Jenny Greenteeth and other rural ghasts of English folklore. The gruff, demonic comic book hero Hellboy. The horror from space that turns men to frogs; Wyndham Lewis with a face like a frog. ...
Niel Rishoi
Adapting Scott-Was Ivanhoe
Nan Jacobs wrote: I don't generally think of Scott as witty or pithy, but I must say that he sums up that villainess, Lady Ashton, in a wonderful nutshell: "she stood high in favour with the celebrated Sarah Duchesss of Marlborough, ...
Marc Shepherd
Adapting Scott-Was Ivanhoe (and is again)
Ivanhoe is a very complex book with multiple story threads and even perhaps > more problematic, it involves a lot of action, such as jousts and big > battle scenes. How this could be compressed into an opera is beyond me. ...
Dan Handshue
Adapting Scott-Was Ivanhoe
>Another great line is when they discover the bloodied Lucy hovering >over her dead bridegroom: Except Bucklaw is not dead - he recovers and is "a sadder and a wiser man than he had hitherto shown himself." ...
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Adapting Scott-Was Ivanhoe (and is again)
As always, time will tell; a lot of time has passed since Sullivan produced his *serious* opera, while, as you say, his non-serious ones created a new genre. Does that mean that WS Gilbert ranks higher than Scott as a literary figure? ...
David
Adapting Scott-Was Ivanhoe
>Another great line is when they discover the bloodied Lucy hovering over her >dead bridegroom: I've always thought Lucy was probably innocent. In detective novels and TV crime series people are always being discovered in a similar ...
Mike Begley
Adapting Scott-Was Ivanhoe
I think this is an important point to keep in mind in discussing Sullivan's opera. In the Wikipedia article on Sullivan's Ivanhoe the suggestion is made, which I find completely credible, that Sullivan and his librettist could pretty ...
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Adapting Scott-Was Ivanhoe (and is again)
In a message dated 2/21/2010 9:36:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, nan_jacobs@HOTMAIL.COM writes: I don't generally think of Scott as witty or pithy, but I must say that he sums up that villainess, Lady Ashton, in a wonderful nutshell: "she ...
Nan Jacobs
Adapting Scott-Was Ivanhoe
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:35:15 -0500, Niel Rishoi wrote: Ah yes, the challenges to us non-Scots-speakers! At a recent recital, Bernarda Fink sang the Robbie Burns songs from "Myrten", and program provided not an English "translation" of ...
Nan Jacobs
Adapting Scott-Was Ivanhoe
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:37:56 -0500, Jon Alan Conrad wrote: >>The New Grove article agrees that LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR is the best of the Donizetti operas, while noting that it omits "Scott's most memorable villainess, Lucy's mother." ...
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Sullivan Sir Arthur Lyle Prince Consort Orch Ivanhoe Complete Opera
No wonder she was called the "IT" Girl, she had it all, from humble beginnings to all hell that small minded people could through at her, looks. Follow up.
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Adapting Scott-Was Ivanhoe
The book contains most of the information anyone could want about the opera. For information about other operas based on Scott's works, and there are many of them, see Jerome Mitchell's "The Walter Scott Operas" and "More Scott Operas. ...
donald kane
Adapting Scott-Was Ivanhoe
As always, it is the musical rather than the dramaturgical inspiration that determines the eventual worth of any opera. Seemingly, by the time Dickens replaced Scott in the English literary pantheon, composers had learned their lesson; ...
Rich Lowenthal
Adapting Scott-Was Ivanhoe
I must confess a lifelong inability to read Walter Scott, despite my deep and abiding love for 19th century English literature. (I cannot think of a significant author contemporary to Scott for whom I have as little affection). ...
Jon Alan Conrad
Adapting Scott-Was Ivanhoe
Anyone know of any other successful Scott adaptations for opera? Scott was HUGELY popular in the nineteenth century, and a great many operas in many languages were based on his. There are, I think, at least two full-length books on this ...
Paul Ricchi
More reflections on Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe just does not adapt. Yes, it's true that Scott - like opera - does not capture what little imagination contemporary readers / listeners have - it's the universal malaise: attention deficit disorder precipitated by the dumbing ...
William Smith
Adapting Scott-Was Ivanhoe
Given the success of Lucia, I guess Donizetti's librettist performed a reasonable adaptation of Walter Scott's Bride of Lammermoor. Anyone know of any other successful Scott adaptations for opera? Bill Smith ...
Marc Shepherd
Sullivan's Ivanhoe has been issued by Chandos!
On 2/19/2010 2:13 PM, Jon Alan Conrad wrote: > Frankly, I had begun to resign myself that recording projects like > this one were not going to happen any more -- now-obscure pieces that > "ought to be" recorded but can't be expected to ...
donald kane
More reflections on Ivanhoe
This is much more than a humble opinion, it is very much closer to being a definitive assessment of the trouble with IVANHOE. It wasn't even possible for Hollywood, with the *talents* of both their Taylors, to make anything memorable of ...
Rich Lowenthal
More reflections on Ivanhoe
Despite Ivanhoe's initial long run, within a relatively short period it had largely disappeared. The Times wrote of Beecham's 1910 revival, "The librettist, Mr. Julian Sturgis, was hampered by his respect for Scott and his desire to get ...
Thomas
Review: Opera Cleveland @ PHS State Theatre 5/20/10
Opera Cleveland's modernized production of Donizetti's over-the-top “Lucia di Lammermoor” shone brightly opening night. Based on a Scottish feud story by Sir Walter Scott (Ivanhoe, etc.), one of the most popular writers of his age (and ...
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Burnin' Red Ivanhoe - M144 (Den 1969)
Ivanhoe in the Woods 5:14 02. Ida Verlaine 4:16 03. Sensitive Plant 3:18 04. Inside 2:45 05. Ksilioy 10:32 Bonus Tracks: 06. Opera 2:21 07. Omegnens poesi 2:34 08. Fødelandssoldatersang [Recorded live in Germany] 2:24 ...
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From Ivanhoe to Disney: a Brief Look at Silver Lake in Los AngelesPuccini and Toscanini were not only musical geniuses but were also the unknowing creators of pop culture. Their opera, La Boheme, introduced Bohemian Culture into ...
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CZ Guest in her garden in Mainbocher opera coat. I was actually privileged to meet CZ at a big beauty event at Bergdorf Goodman shortly after I moved to New York in 2001. She was there to promote her garden line of products of course I ...
Tim Bull
Australian Twitter users and privacy implications. A guide.
WOEIDs are also hierarchical, so a Point Of Interest like “Sydney Opera House” may well have it's own WOEID that points to other WOEIDs which in turn describe the location in terms of suburb, town, state and country. ... Providing a very efficient way of storing and finding the same location (it's much more efficient for a computer to look up an ID that means “Ivanhoe, Melbourne, Australia” than to process lots of different Lat / Longs to work out effectively the same ...
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Sound Wave Dental Surgery | Medical News and Health Information
WASHINGTON, DC (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Until now, dental bone surgery has meant using a scalpel and stitches to fix problems in your mouth; but now there's a ne. ... "Just as an opera singer will sing and crack glass, this is like the opera singer for surgery and it can crack your bone without any pain, without any discomfort, without any bleeding," Joseph Kravitz, D.D.S, a prosthodontist at the Center for Dental Health in Washington , D.C. , explained to Ivanhoe. ...
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
The Floating Opera – John Barth # The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien # The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith # Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov # A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen # The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett ...
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The Final Decision
Ivanhoe (1952). Last Monday I went to see Dr. Icenogle, the transplant surgeon, about the possibility of getting a heart transplant. We had a good long talk and he laid out all the requirements. Since then I've been thinking ...
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How to See Opera in Los Angeles | eHow.com
This theater is the home to Contemporary Opera Los Angeles, a small opera group that put on a variety of shows during their season. You can see operas like the Nutcracker or Ivanhoe next to the work of rising West Coast playwrights. ...
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Richard D'Oyly Carte: Definition from Answers.com
Carte's first production at the Royal English Opera House was of Sullivan's only grand opera, Ivanhoe, which opened in January 1891. It played for an initial run of 155 performances, a record for an opera, but no other operas shared the ...
Robert H
From this month's Opera
And we have a fascinating book about Sullivan's Ivanhoe, but still no decent recording! In We hear that.., Bryn Terfel is due do a new Dutchman at Covent Garden next season, directed by Tim Albery; don't hold your breath. ...
Robert H
Gleanings from this month's Opera magazine
So that's still an opera on the to be seen list (along with Ivanhoe and Le Roi Arthus and most of Meyerbeer's French oeuvre) The review of the reconstruction of Gilbert and Sullivan's Thespis or the God's Grown Old did make me wonder ...
Myopic Bookworm
Perelandra the Opera
Certainly it seems to be the only thing he attempted on this scale, but I fear it is inevitably doomed to stand alongside Sir Arthur Sullivan's Ivanhoe and Scott Joplin's Treemonisha as a noble effort in serious opera by a composer ...
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William Wallace's 'Lurline'
Anybody remotely interested in British music and/ or opera will welcome this wonderful enterprise. With George Macfarren's Robin Hood (1860) due for release in six-months time it looks as though the long-overdue revival of Victorian ... Certainly Stanford and MacCunn deserve attention, as does Arthur Goring Thomas (Esmeralda in particular) - the problem will always be primarily one of finance and sponsorship: the excellent Chandos recording of Sullivan's Ivanhoe chiefly ...
Joy Fleisig
The annual operatic Halloween story!
So, especially considering that he rarely did any opera that could be associated with horror (Faust? Not really, although I think he did Max in Die Freischutz very early in his career), you would hardly think that his name would come up ...
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Ivanhoe by Walter Scott - I
IVANHOE. The Author of the Waverley Novels had hitherto proceeded in an unabated course of popularity, and might, in his peculiar district of literature, have been termed "L'Enfant Gate" of success. It was plain, however, that frequent ...
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From Ivanhoe To Disney: A Brief Look At Silver Lake
From Ivanhoe To Disney: A Brief Look At Silver Lake In Los Angeles. Puccini and Toscanini were not only musical geniuses but were also the unknowing creators of pop culture. Their opera La Boheme introduced Bohemian Culture into ...
Birdie
Guardian's 1001 Books
The Floating Opera – John Barth 494.The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien 495.The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith 496.Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 497.A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen 498.The Trusting and the Maimed – James ...
Elaine Simpson-Long
My Word is my Bond
Filled with lots of super photos of him as The Saint, Bond, Ivanhoe, Maverick and I had forgotten how gorgeous he was in a simply dire film, the Miracle, picture reminded me, this book is great fun and a very pleasant way of wiling away ...
Jazz Blues Florida
Miramar Cultural Center presents Gold Coast Opera 2010 Series
An exhibition presented by the Miramar Cultural Center Collection of the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University from clockwise: Dan, Mask, Wood, cowrie shells, cloth; Gift of Morris and Sylvia Ivanhoe ...
Julia Smith
Ten Films That Deliver Gorgeous Historical Costumes
These are some of my favorite films and mini series. It's not a coincidence that all of them have exquisite costume design. - 1 A Christmas Carol (1984) - 2 Beowulf and Grendel (2005) - 3 Horatio Hornblower (1998-2003) - 4 Ivanhoe (1997 ...
Julia Smith
Through the Opera Glasses - 16 - Ten Films That Deliver Gorgeous ...
4 Ivanhoe (1997) - 5 Jesus of Nazareth (1977) - 6 Lillie Langtry (1979) - 7 Pride and Prejudice (1995) - 8 Rome (HBO) (2005-2007) - 9 Sharpe (1993-2008) - 10 The Age of Innocence (1993) Jeeves says Just love these pictures. ...
Wilson E. Allen
First time successes?
COM wrote: > I've been listening to Sullivan's Ivanhoe and feel that if Sullivan had > written more than one opera he might have realized the success that he > probably wanted. > > > From this arose this question, what first opera that ...
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First time successes?
I've been listening to Sullivan's Ivanhoe and feel that if Sullivan had written more than one opera he might have realized the success that he probably wanted. From this arose this question, what first opera that a composer has written ...
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Sir Arthur Sullivan – Ivanhoe
With Ivanhoe Arthur Sullivan eventually over his life-long aspiration to write a grand opera. Though his worldwide celebrity currently rests on the still phenomenally renouned comic operas he wrote with WS Gilbert, Sullivan deliberate ...
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Andrew's speech to the House of Lords | Andrew Lloyd Webber
The theatre was constructed by Richard D'Oyley Carte as an opera house partly to thank his composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. It opened with Sullivans serious opera, Ivanhoe, which failed almost immediately. After a couple of short seasons, ...
Bob Dilley
ARTISTS' EVENTS!!
Forsooth Opera Lovers! Today we can celebrate the birthdays of: Philip Glass (1937) Mario Lanza (1921-1959) Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Also, the following works premiered on this date: Sullivan's "Ivanhoe" (1891) Lully's "Bellerophois" ...
Baritenor
How jolly was my jenkin
Thus, Ivanhoe: an English-language opera in the best Italian style, based on perhaps the greatest of British novels by the great Sir Walter Scott (the fact that Scott was, well, Scottish didn't seem to deter them.) The opera was an ...
Jon Alan Conrad
The real Offenbach: was Re: Radvan, 09-10 Season-NOT BORING!!
Regarding > Ivanhoe, and Sullivan's desperate wish to be taken "seriously" as > an opera > composer, his operetta collaborator WS Gilbert bitterly and > resentfully > wrote to Sullivan that "a carpenter should stick to his last." ...
moozone
New classical/opera release by David Lloyd-Jones
Sullivan, A.: Ivanhoe by David Lloyd-Jones. 2010 (46 tracks, 2:45:02). classical/opera.
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Sullivan wrote only one grand opera, Ivanhoe (following the efforts of a number of young English composers beginning about 1876),[10] but he claimed that even his light operas constituted part of a school of "English" opera, ...
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'Ivanhoe' (Sullivan) | La Discoteca de HispaOpera
SULLIVAN Ivanhoe Janice Watson, Geraldine McGreevy, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence, Peter Wedd, Peter Rose (solistas) Adrian Partington Singers BBC.
Brightshadow
Cafeteria Rusticana: Smyth's The Wreckers -- New, at 101
(Sullivan might have -- but his Ivanhoe and The Golden Legend suggest that light opera was not just his delight, it was also the locus of his genius.) Smyth, like Sullivan, had studied in Germany, and her second opera, Der Wald, ...
Sasha
Why is opera 'oprah' and Oprah 'opera'??
My quest to 'know more about opera' has just paid me back, big time. It was based on a book by this Scottish dude, who wrote Ivanhoe, Rob Roy and 'The Lady Of The Lake', so I'm guessing it's not Perth, Australia. But still.
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Ivanhoe Newswire
Category: Doctor's Views Created: 1/10/2006. Last Editorial Review: 9/28/2006.Did you know that Night means this period considered from its activities: a night at the opera. I also noted that.
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Sullivan: Ivanhoe | CD review
Its history was chequered from the outset: it was by no means a failure as some have claimed, but the first production in 1891 was so costly that it bankrupted London's new Royal English Opera House (now the Palace theatre), ...
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William B. Fosser's Puppet Production, Opera in Focus is an ...
He also worked as a set designer for live theatrical productions, designing scenery for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, as well as the Candlelight, Ivanhoe, and Drury Lane theaters. He spent his free time, however, further developing ...
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Boston Academy of Music
In 1982 Boston Academy began its series of fully staged productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operas, including the American premiere of Arthur Sullivan's grand opera Ivanhoe. Boston Academy also presents a summer chamber concert series, ...
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Teste2 Blog MINI
Sullivan wrote only one grand opera, Ivanhoe (following the efforts of a number of young English composers beginning about 1876), but he claimed that even his light operas constituted part of a school of “English” opera, ...
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English National Opera
... with Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, introducing the first English opera composer since Purcell to receive international acclaim (aside from Arthur Sullivan, who wrote the popular Savoy Operas but only one grand opera, Ivanhoe). ...
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Formulas - Sandow
Well, poor Sullivan thought his serious music (like his opera "Ivanhoe") was much more important than his operettas. But a completely different thing from Verdi? I don't think so, and the presence of operatic parodies in the G&S pieces ...
Music From Big-D
Music From Big-D - Cotton Mather - Cotton Is King (1994)
06 - Ivanhoe 07 - April's Fool 08 - The World's Boutique 09 - Saving Myself 10 - The New King of Trash 11 - The Words of Shaman Roger 12 - The End of the Line Cotton Mather is a powerpop band from Austin, Texas formed in 1991. With their strong vocal harmonies and .... Music From Big-D is blogging on My Opera. My Opera is a blog and photo sharing community with millions of members. Join now to follow Music From Big-D's blog and get your own. RSS | ATOM · WIDGETIZE ...
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Authors and Presenters | Salem Literary Festival
Barry studied James Joyce's Ulysses at Trinity College in Dublin, ran promotional campaigns for Chicago's Second City, Ivanhoe, and Studebaker theaters, studied screenwriting at NYU, and had an original script optioned in Hollywood .... A scene from her's opera libretto, Mr. Hawthorne's Engagement, was performed with American Opera Project's Composers and the Voice series. Elyssa created Columbia University's Artists' Resource Center and ran KGB Bar's Columbia University ...
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Pacini, Giovanni
After Rossini left, Pacini and his contemporaries (Meyerbeer, Vaccai, Carafa, Coccia, Bellini, Donizetti, the Ricci brothers and Mercadante) started to modify the nature of Italian opera around 1824. .... Il corsaro (January 15, 1831 Teatro Apollo, Rome) [revived 1832 La Scala, Milan]; Ivanhoe (March 19, 1832 Teatro La Fenice, Venice); Don Giovanni Tenorio, o Il convitato di pietra (1832 Casa Belluomini, Viareggio); Gli elvezi, ovvero Corrado di Tochemburgo (January 12, ...
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Sullivan wrote only one grand opera, Ivanhoe (following the efforts of a number of young English composers beginning about 1876), but he claimed that even his light operas constituted part of a school of "English" opera, ...
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Arthur Sullivan - Ivanhoe
George McHollan Bruce Graham Ivor Klayman Richard Bourfo Frances McCafferty David Blackwood Alan Borthwick Scott Cooper Irene Drummond Walter Anderson Simon Boothroyd Rachel Cowan Prince Consort Orchestra David Lyle, 1993 ...
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The Literary Lab: When Does Drama Become Melodrama?
Maybe only in the sense that some genres are more intrinsically melodramatic than others, but I would say that Soap Operas are probably pure melodrama, whereas Ivanhoe is historical meladrama and Star Wars is space opera (sf mixed with ...
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