Edward Solomon

Edward "Teddy" Solomon ( born July 25, 1855 in London, † January 22, 1895 ibid ) was an English composer and conductor.

Life

Solomon was a successful and productive stage composer, of the order had been given thirty operettas and comic operas in England and the United States until his untimely death in 1895. His first opera ( A Will With a Vengeance ) had its world premiere in 1876 at the Globe Theatre, when Solomon was 21 years old.

In 1879 he became musical director of the Royalty Theatre, where he has conducted Arthur Sullivan's The Zoo. His first major success as a composer, he was in collaboration with librettist Henry Pottinger Stephens ( "Pot " Stephens ) with the " nautical " Opera Billie Taylor ( 1880) and the comic opera Claude Duval (1881 ).

When his house composers Gilbert and Sullivan in 1891 temporarily parted, took the Theaterimpresario Richard D' Oyly Carte Solomon to his Savoy Theatre. Here conducted the premiere of his operetta The Nautch Girl ( with Jessie Bond and Rutland Barrington in the lead roles ) and his comic opera The Vicar of Bray. In the following years, the D' Oyly Carte Opera Company listed other operettas Solomons in Britain and the United States.

In the operetta The Red Hussar in 1890, the singer Marie Tempest sensationallen a successful debut in New York. Solomon himself favored the American operetta Queen Lillian Russell, which occurred among others in his comic operas Billie Taylor, Pocahontas, Polly and Pepita and who became his second wife. He died in 1895 before his fortieth birthday of typhoid.

Works

  • A Will With a Vengeance, comic opera ( libretto by Frederick Hay ), UA 1876
  • Contempt of Court, romantic cantata ( Libretto: Arthur Matthison ), UA 1877
  • Bertha, the Betrayer
  • Rothomago or The Magic Watch, great Christmassy Feenspektakel ( joint composition with Procida Bucalossi, Gaston Serpette and Georges Jacobi ) UA 1879
  • Billie Taylor, nautical comic opera ( libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens ), UA 1880
  • Popsy Wopsy, a musical absurdity ( libretto by Sydney Grundy ), UA 1880
  • Claude Duval or Love and Larceny, romantic comic opera ( libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens ), UA 1882
  • Quite an adventure, operetta ( libretto by Frank Desprez ), UA 1881
  • Lord Bateman or Picotee 's Pledge, comic opera ( libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens ), UA 1882
  • The Vicar of Bray, English comic opera ( libretto by Sydney Grundy ), UA 1882
  • Virginia and Paul or Changing the Rings, comic opera ( libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens ), UA 1883
  • Pocahontas or The Great White Pearl, comic opera ( libretto by Sydney Grundy ), UA 1884
  • Polly or The Pet of the Regiment, comic opera ( libretto: James Mortimer ), UA 1884
  • Pepita or The Girl With the Glass Eyes, comic opera ( libretto by Alfred Thompson), UA 1886
  • The Maid and the Moonshiner, comic opera ( libretto: Charles Hoyt ), UA 1886
  • Penelope, musical version of the farce The Area Belle by William Brough and Andrew Halliday (adapted from George P. Hawtrey ), UA 1889
  • Pickwick, dramatic cantata ( Libretto: Francis Burnand ), UA 1889
  • Tuppins and Co., operetta ( libretto by T. Malcolm Watson) UA 1889
  • The Red Hussar, comic opera ( libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens ), UA 1889
  • Domestic Economy, operetta ( libretto Francis Burnand ), UA 1890
  • The Tiger, operetta ( Libretto: Francis Burnand ), UA 1890
  • The Nautch Girl or The Rajah of Chutneypore, Indian comic opera ( libretto by George Dance with poems by Dance and Frank Desprez ), UA 1891
  • Killiecrumper, a conversation ( libretto by T. Malcolm Watson), UA 1891
  • Sandford and Merton, operetta ( Libretto: Francis Burnand ), UA 1893
  • The professor, a musical dialogue ( libretto: Rutland Barrington ) U.S. 1895
  • On the March, musical comedy, community composition with Tom Crook and Frederic Clay ( Libretto: William Yardley, BC Stephenson and Cecil Clay after in Camp Victoria Vokes ), UA 1896
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