Description
Savoy Curtain-Raisers
Ref
MB99
Categories
Collected Editions
,
Musica Britannica
,
Operas, Odes & Oratorios
,
Vocal & Opera
By
Christopher O’Brien (Ed)
,
Ernest Ford
,
François Cellier
Edited by Christopher O’Brien
First published in 2015
Pages: 256
Format: Hardback
Dimensions (mm): 330 x 254 x 28
Weight: 1.788kg
Shedding light on a little-known aspect of late-Victorian theatre, MB99 offers full scores and librettos of two one-act operettas, produced at the Savoy Theatre and written to precede as curtain-raisers the main, full-length work of the evening. Richard D’Oyly Carte did much to cultivate the genre, initiated by
Trial by Jury
in 1875, and featured regularly at the Savoy Theatre between 1878 and 1908. Though all but forgotten today, the composers François Cellier (1849-1914) and Ernest Ford (1858-1919) had strong connections with Sullivan, and wrote a number of one-act works, of which only
Captain Billy
(1891) and
Mr Jericho
(1893) respectively are known to have survived.
Performing material to accompany this volume is now available.
