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Sullivan at 18, in Leipzig. The Tempest (1861) The Merchant of Venice (1871) The Merry Wives of Windsor (1874) Henry VIII (1877) Macbeth (1888) Tennyson 's The Foresters (1892) J. Comyns Carr 's King Arthur for Henry Irving (1895) Sheet music.
Arthur Sullivan in 1888. Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. His works include 24 operas, 11 major orchestral works, ten choral works and ...
The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598.A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan taken out on behalf of his dear friend, Bassanio, and provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock, with seemingly inevitable fatal consequences.
A shipwrecked mariner. L'Île Enchantée (literally, The Enchanted Island) is an 1864 ballet by Arthur Sullivan written as a divertissement at the end of Vincenzo Bellini 's La Sonnambula at Covent Garden. It was choreographed by H. Desplaces.
Thespis. (opera) Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old, is an operatic extravaganza that was the first collaboration between dramatist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan. No musical score of Thespis was ever published, and most of the music has been lost.
Kenilworth is one of Arthur Sullivan's earliest choral works, coming only three years after he completed his studies. Early in 1862, the critic Henry Fothergill Chorley, who served on the committee that had awarded the Mendlessohn scholarships to Sullivan, [1] had hosted a private performance of Sullivan's incidental music to Shakespeare's The Tempest at his home, where George Grove, at that ...
Cello Concerto (Sullivan) The Cello Concerto in D major is Arthur Sullivan 's only concerto and was one of his earliest large-scale works. It was written for the Italian cellist Alfredo Piatti and premiered on 24 November 1866 at the Crystal Palace, London, with August Manns conducting. After this, it was performed only a few times.
The critical reputation of the British composer Arthur Sullivan has fluctuated markedly in the 150 years since he came to prominence. At first, critics regarded him as a potentially great composer of serious masterpieces, the long-awaited great English composer. [1] When Sullivan made a series of popular successes in comic operas with the ...