The Pocket Guide to Opera by Anna Selby

The Pocket Guide to Opera by Anna Selby

Author:Anna Selby
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: PER000000
ISBN: 9781844685349
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2011-06-12T16:00:00+00:00


A KNIGHTED COMPOSER

When Sullivan was knighted in 1883, it was felt in some quarters that he ought to abandon the comic operas for which he was so famed and get down to something more serious. The Musical Review opined:

Some things that Mr Arthur Sullivan may do, Sir Arthur ought not to do. In other words, it will look rather more than odd to see announced in the papers that a new comic opera is in preparation, the book by Mr W. S. Gilbert and the music by Sir Arthur Sullivan. A musical knight can hardly write shop ballads either; he must not dare to soil his hands with anything less than an anthem or a madrigal; oratorio, in which he has so conspicuously shone, and symphony, must now be his line. Here is not only an opportunity, but a positive obligation for him to return to the sphere from which he has too long descended.



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