Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
Standard Name: Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour
Used Form: Arthur Sullivan
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Sarah Flower Adams | Nearer, My God, to Thee, written when SFA
was only twenty-one, has often been misattributed to Harriet Beecher Stowe
. |
Textual Features | Wendy Cope | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Wendy Cope | WC
says she has been influenced by Gilbert
and Sullivan
(one of whose patter songs provides the template for At 70: Of fitness and vitality I am not the epitome) and by Philip Larkin |
Performance of text | Frances Cornford | When Frances Cornford
was a child, she and her cousin Gwen
were the two chief writers of the annual Darwin family Christmas play. This was written in Gilbert
and Sullivan
style, with complicated plots and... |
Textual Production | Harriett Jay | By 10 November 1898 they had colllaborated on an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas
's play Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr as the romantic comedy Two Little Maids from School (its title adapted from a song in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amy Levy | AL
acknowledged the influence on her poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, Goethe
, Heine
, Robert Browning
, Swinburne
(whose poem Félise she answered in Félise to Her Lover), and James Thomson
(the... |
Leisure and Society | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | After her schooling at St Leonard's
and before her brief time at Oxford
, Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR
) was a debutante for three years, during which time she was bored and suffocated by... |
Leisure and Society | Kate O'Brien | Having delighted in operatic music since her first introduction to Gilbert
and Sullivan
at an early age, she was admitted to listen to Maria Callas
singing in a rehearsal of operas by Gluck
and Verdi |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Ogilvy | Over the years EO
developed friendships many people, a number of whom were involved with the community surrounding the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. Among these friends were Sir David Brewster
, Henry Chorley
,... |
Cultural formation | Barbara Pym | BP
's sister calls their childhood happy, unclouded. Pym, Barbara. “Editorial Materials”. A Very Private Eye, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, p. various pages. 2 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Pym | Since Barbara's parents had performed in several musical operettas, and the whole family enjoyed Gilbert
and Sullivan
in particular, the children were comfortable with the form. Pym, Barbara. “Editorial Materials”. A Very Private Eye, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, p. various pages. 2-3 |
Textual Production | Ethel Smyth | |
Leisure and Society | Oscar Wilde | Gilbert
and Sullivan
's comic opera Patience opened at the Savoy Theatre
; it mocked OW
as the fleshly poet Bunthorne (in, coincidentally, the first English theatre production to use electric lighting on stage). Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf. 134-5 Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press. 90, chronology |
Timeline
13 May 1842: Composer Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was...
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13 May 1842
Composer Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
was born at 8 Bolwell Terrace, Lambeth Walk, London.
November 1847: Alfred Tennyson published The Princess: A...
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November 1847
Alfred Tennyson
published The Princess: A Medley.
25 March 1875: Trial by Jury, the first light opera by Sir...
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25 March 1875
Trial by Jury, the first light opera by Sir W. S. Gilbert
and Sir Arthur Sullivan
, opened on stage; it was published, with the score, in 1888.
10 October 1881: The Savoy Theatre in the Strand was opened...
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10 October 1881
5 January 1884: Sir W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan's...
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5 January 1884
Sir W. S. Gilbert
and Sir Arthur Sullivan
's Princess Ida has its first performance, at the Savoy Theatre
in London.
14 March 1885: The Mikado; Or, The Town of Titipu, by Gilbert...
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14 March 1885
The Mikado; Or, The Town of Titipu, by Gilbert
and Sullivan
, was first performed: its Japanese setting was topical, since Japan had first opened to trade with the world two years previously.
22 November 1900: Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, composer, died...
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22 November 1900
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
, composer, died at 1 Queen's Mansions, Victoria Street, Westminster, London.
13 March 1951: The ballet Pineapple Poll, choreographed...
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13 March 1951
The ballet Pineapple Poll, choreographed by John Cranko
with music by Sullivan
and Mackerras
, was performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre
, London.
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