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Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)

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« on: August 20, 2012, 10:47:34 am »

One of the highlights of the next English Music Festival (held at Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire) will be a professional performance of Sullivan's cantata The Golden Legend (1886) on 25th May 2013. The BBC has broadcast concerts from previous EMFs, so there is a chance that this may also reach a wider audience.


The Chandos recording of The Beauty Stone (1898) is still scheduled to take place early next year with the following provisional cast:

Laine - Elin Manahan Thomas
Philip, Lord of Mirlemont - Toby Spence
Saida - Rebecca Evans
The Devil - Alan Opie
Simon Limal - Stephen Gadd
Joan - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
Jacqueline - Pamela Helen Stephen
Guntran of Beaugrant - Peter Rose
Nicholas Dircks - Richard Suart

conducter, Rory MacDonald

This will be an absolutely complete recording, including several substantial numbers cut after the premiere and not included in the Chappell vocal score. The Sullivan Society still welcomes contributions (large or small) towards the funding of this exciting project - http://www.sullivansociety.org.uk/projects.php

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« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2012, 02:21:50 pm »

Thanks for highlighting this, Albion! I wish I could come over for "The Golden Legend"! I have been enjoying the newly published full score of The Beauty Stone, and very much look forward to hearing the extra numbers, plus the rest done professionally. That will only leave 'Haddon Hall', 'The Chieftain' and 'The Emerald Isle' of extant Sullivan operas not to have had a professional recording.
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