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WORK TITLE
Arthur Sullivan: Biography
ARTHUR SULLIVAN’S WORK TIME-LINE
ST DAVID’S PLAYERS RESOURCE CENTRE
ST DAVID’S PLAYERS
Gilbert and Sullivan Society · Exeter · Devon
1857
13 July 1858
25 May 1860
1860
6 April 1861
14 March 1863
14 May 1864
18 July 1864
8 September 1864
10 March 1866
24 November 1866
30 October 1866
17 December 1866
3 June 1867
18 December 1867
8 September 1869
31 August 1870
1871
1 May 1871
19 September 1871
26 Dec 1871
27 August 1873
30 August 1874
25 March 1875
5 June 1875
29 August 1877
17 November 1877
25 May 1878
30 December 1879
31 December 1879
3 April 1880
15 October 1880
23 April 1881
10 October 1881
25 November 1882
5 January 1884
14 March 1885
4 May 1886
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16 October 1886
22 January 1887
4 July 1887
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3 October 1888
29 December 1888
7 December 1889
31 January 1891
3 June 1891
25 March 1892
24 September 1892
10 May 1893
7 October 1893
12 December 1894
12 January 1895
7 March 1896
25 May 1897
28 May 1898
29 Nov 1899
27 April 1901
Overture in C minor ‘Timon of Athens’
Overture in D minor
Overture ‘Rosenfest’
Procession March
Incidental music to ‘The Tempest’
Princess of Wales’ March
Ballet ‘L’île enchantée’
The Sapphire Necklace(1) (Libretto by Henry Chorley)
Kenilworth (Libretto Henry Chorley)
Symphony in E ‘Irish’
Concerto in D major for Violoncello & Orchestra
Overture in C minor/major ‘In Memoriam’
Cox and Box (Libretto by F C Burnand)
Concert Overture ‘Marmion’
The Contrabandista (Libretto by F C Burnand)
Overture di Ballo
March Danois
On Shore and Sea (Libretto by Tom Taylor)
Incidental music to ‘The Merchant of Venice’
Incidental music to ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’
The Zoo (Libretto by ‘Bolton Rowe’)
Incidental music to ‘Henry VIII’
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THE MARTYR OF ANTIOCH (Libretto from Dean Millman, Edited by W. S. Gilbert)
Ode for the Opening of the
Colonial and Indian Exhibition (Libretto by Alfred Lord Tennyson)
The Golden Legend (Libretto by Joseph Bennett after Longfellow)
Ode for the Laying of the Foundation Stone of the
Imperial Institute (Libretto by Lewis Morris)
Incidental music to ‘Macbeth’
Ivanhoe (Libretto by Julian Sturgis)
The Foresters (Incidental music for a play by Alfred Lord Tennyson)
Haddon Hall (Libretto by Sydney Grundy)
Imperial March
The Chieftain (Libretto by F C Burnand)
King Arthur (Incidental music to a play by Joseph Comyns Carr)
Ballet ‘Victoria and Merrie England’
The Beauty Stone (Libretto by Arthur Wing Pinero & Joseph Comyns Carr)
The Rose of Persia (Libretto by Basil Hood)
The Emerald Isle (Libretto by Basil Hood, Music completed by Edward German
(1) never performed complete
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Royal Academy of Music
Leipzig Gewandhaus
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Leipzig Gewandhaus
Crystal Palace
Covent Garden
Excerpts St James’s Hall
Birmingham
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace
Norwich
Adelphi Theatre
St James’s Hall
St George’s Hall
Worcester
Birmingham
Weippert
Albert Hall
Prince’s Theatre, Manchester
Gaiety Theatre
Birmingham
Theatre Royal, Manchester
Royalty Theatre
St James’s Theatre
Theatre Royal, Manchester
Opera Comique
Opera Comique
Royal Bijou Theatre, Paignton
First Avenue Theater, New York
Opera Comique
Leeds
Opera Comique
transferring to Savoy Theatre
Savoy Theatre
Savoy Theatre
Savoy Theatre
Albert Hall
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Leeds
Savoy Theatre
Site of the Imperial Institute
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Savoy Theatre
Lyceum Theatre
Savoy Theatre
Royal English Opera House
Vaudeville Theatre
Daly’s Theater, New York
Savoy Theatre
Imperial Institute
Savoy Theatre
Savoy Theatre
Lyceum Theatre
Savoy Theatre
Alhambra Theatre
Savoy Theatre
Savoy Theatre
Savoy Theatre
NUMBER OF
PERFORMANCES
W S Gilberts work time-line
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