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A comic opera : The idea for The Mikado first sprang |
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The Mikado
Music: Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics & Book: W.S. Gilbert
The idea for The Mikado first sprang into W.S. Gilbert's mind when an old Japanese sword, which had been hanging on the wall of his study for years, suddenly fell from its place. Gilbert took this as an omen and determined to leave his own country alone for a while and turn his biting satire instead towards the East. He did not have to look far to research the subject of his new play. He found all the material he wanted in Knightsbridge, a little village of Japanese immigrants within a mile of his own home in South Kensington. Here, he witnessed the strange arts, devices and lifestyles of this proud race.
The Rise of Light Opera
WHILE the grand opera composers had been employed in furnishing the world with a voluminous series of tragedies, historical or mythical, ancient or mediæval, it was not to be supposed that comedy was cast utterly into the background. As early as the days of Cavalli, the comic element had shown its appearance on the stage, though not in a very decisive manner. In 1639 a musical comedy by Mazzocchi and Marazzoli, entitled "Chi Sofre Speri," was performed in Florence under the patronage of Cardinal Barberini, and was witnessed by the poet Milton. About twenty years later a theatre was erected there, devoted wholly to comedy, but for some reason it did not prove successful.
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"The Beggar's Opera" was also an attempt to stem the rising tide of Italian opera which was at that time almost a craze in London. It parodied this school with much success.
5 Sutherland Edwards, "History of the Opera," p. 296.
6 See Philip Hale, "Operatic Extravagances," in Boston Symphony Pro gramme Book, 1901.
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