747313518029

Arthur Sullivan: Ballet Music - L'île Enchantée, Thespis

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Format: CD

Cat No: 8555180

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Release Date:  12 February 2021

Label:  Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  747313518029

Genres:  Classical  Ballets & Dances  

Composer/Series:  Arthur Sullivan

  • Description

    Soon after his return from studies in Leipzig, Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote his second work, L’Île Enchantée. This was a ballet score on the subject of a shipwrecked mariner which debuted at Covent Garden in the form of a divertissement at the end of Bellini’s La sonnambula, where it was received with acclaim. This premiere recording restores passages Sullivan cut when presenting the work for concert performances. Thespis, a collaboration with W.S. Gilbert, is a flamboyant opera cum pantomime of which only fragments now remain - the work’s lost ballet has been rediscovered and restored by Roderick Spencer and Selwyn Tillett.

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