LE PETIT FAUST Opéra-bouffe in 3 acts
Of Hervé’s three most successful full-scale opéras-bouffes, it was Le Petit Faust, the only one of the three to parody
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Sigmund Romberg (b Nagykanizsa, Hungary, 29 July 1887; d New York, 9 November 1951)
Romberg studied the violin in his youthful years in Hungary, but he was set at first towards an adult career
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The most successful composer of the English opéra-bouffe and -comique stage: Arthur Sullivan
Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b London, 13 May 1842; d London, 22 November 1900). Educated at the Chapel Royal, the Royal
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The most talented librettist and lyricist for the 19th-century English-language theatre: W. S. Gilbert
William Schwenk Gilbert (b London, 18 November 1836; d Harrow Weald, 29 May 1911). The most talented librettist and lyricist
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THE VAGABOND KING Musical play in 4 acts
One of the many variants on the Abu Hasan ‘king for a day’ tale, Justin McCarthy’s play If I Were
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THE GEISHA, a story of a tea house Japanese musical play in 2 acts
The most successful of the series of important musical plays produced by George Edwardes at Daly’s Theatre around the turn
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CHILPÉRIC: Opéra-bouffe in 3 acts and 4 tableaux
One of the most successful of extravagantly humorous full-length opéras-bouffes written and composed by the playwright/composer Hervé, Chilpéric went even
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THE ARCADIANS Fantastic musical play in 3 acts
Perhaps the most complete of all the British Edwardian musical comedies, The Arcadians mixed the light romantic and the broadly
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