• Introduction to the Opera, by Clifton Coles
  
  
• Plot Synopsis

• Libretto, prepared for the Archive by Cliff Coles and Jim Farron. In text (126K) format.

• Web Opera. MIDI files of all the music and an illustrated libretto.

• Source of Scores:
  • Download a facsimile of the Vocal Score.
  • Vocal scores and libretti of The Emerald Isle may be rented from St. David's Players of Cullompton, Exeter, England. Send queries to Ian Bond

• Discography: Marc Shepherd's Emerald Isle Discography.

• Opening Night Cast with photographs

• Programme from the production

• Illustrated Music Cover

• Photographs of the Cast from The Sketch, 24 April, 1901 contributed by Adam Cuerden

• First Night Review from The Times, April 29th, 1901.

• The Making of The Emerald Isle — an eye witness account by Cunningham Bridgeham from the 1914 book Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas.

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