Gilbert's comic opera The Mountebanks, with music by Alfred Cellier, was first performed on 4 January 1892 at the Lyric Theatre, London, but its genesis had taken place much earlier. This was the notorious "lozenge plot" that Gilbert had tried to press on Sullivan so often, but without success. After the "carpet quarrel," Gilbert offered the libretto to other composers. The opera had a highly respectable run of 229 performances, but has rarely been revived, although the Lyric Theatre Company of Washington D.C. recorded it in 1964.
- Programme from the 1892 production at the Lyric Theatre.
- Review from The Illustrated London News, 9th January, 1892.
- Scores:
- Downloadable
Vocal Score: A complete downloable
vocal score in PDF format produced by Jim Cooper
of Troupers Light Opera, New Canaan, Connecticut,
from original MIDI files by Clifton Coles and
Ronald Orenstein, and with editing by Adam
Cuerden.
- Vocal scores and libretti of The Mountebanks may
be rented from St. David's Players of Cullompton,
Exeter, England. Send queries to Ian Bond at Ian@kentisview.freeserve.co.uk.
- Tams-Witmark
Music Library, Inc. - The Tams-Whitmark
Music Library, which is located in New York
City, has available the original D'Oyly Carte
Orchestration for Mountebanks.
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