Edward Solomon
Edward "Teddy" Solomon (born July 25, 1855 in London , † January 22, 1895 there ) was an English composer and conductor.
Life
Solomon was a successful and productive stage composer who had performed around thirty operettas and comic operas in England and the United States by his untimely death in 1895. His first opera ( A Will With a Vengeance ) premiered at the Globe Theater in 1876 when Solomon was 21 years old.
In 1879 he became musical director of the Royalty Theater , where he conducted Arthur Sullivan's The Zoo . His first major successes as a composer were in collaboration with the librettist Henry Pottinger Stephens ("Pot" Stephens) with the "nautical" opera Billie Taylor (1880) and the comic opera Claude Duval (1881).
When his house composers Gilbert and Sullivan separated temporarily in 1891, the theater impresario Richard D'Oyly brought Carte Solomon to his Savoy Theater . Here he conducted the world premiere of his operetta The Nautch Girl (with Jessie Bond and Rutland Barrington in the leading roles) and his comic opera The Vicar of Bray . In the years that followed, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company performed other operettas Solomons in Great Britain and the United States.
In 1890 the singer Marie Tempest had a sensational debut success in New York in the operetta The Red Hussar . Solomon himself favored the American operetta queen Lillian Russell , who appeared in his comic operas Billie Taylor , Pocahontas , Polly and Pepita and who became his second wife.
He died of typhus in 1895 before his fortieth birthday .
Works
- A Will With a Vengeance , comic opera (Libretto: Frederick Hay ), WP 1876
- Contempt of Court , romantic cantata (libretto: Arthur Matthison ), premier 1877
- Bertha, the Betrayer
- Rothomago or The Magic Watch , great Christmas fairy spectacle (joint composition with Procida Bucalossi , Gaston Serpette and Georges Jacobi ) premiered in 1879
- Billie Taylor , nautical comic opera (Libretto: Henry Pottinger Stephens), WP 1880
- Popsy Wopsy , a musical absurdity (Libretto: Sydney Grundy ), WP 1880
- Claude Duval or Love and Larceny , romantic comic opera (Libretto: Henry Pottinger Stephens), premiere 1882
- Quite an Adventure , Operetta (Libretto: Frank Desprez ), WP 1881
- Lord Bateman or Picotee's Pledge , comic opera (Libretto: Henry Pottinger Stephens), WP 1882
- The Vicar of Bray , English comic opera (Libretto: Sydney Grundy), premiered in 1882
- Virginia and Paul or Changing the Rings , comic opera (Libretto: Henry Pottinger Stephens), WP 1883
- Pocahontas or The Great White Pearl , comic opera (Libretto: Sydney Grundy), WP 1884
- Polly or The Pet of the Regiment , comic opera (Libretto: James Mortimer ), WP 1884
- Pepita or The Girl With the Glass Eyes , comic opera (Libretto: Alfred Thompson ), WP 1886
- The Maid and the Moonshiner , comic opera (Libretto: Charles Hoyt ), WP 1886
- Penelope , musical version of the farce The Area Belle by William Brough and Andrew Halliday (adapted by George P. Hawtrey ), WP 1889
- Pickwick , dramatic cantata (libretto: Francis Burnand ), WP 1889
- Tuppins and Co. , Operetta (Libretto: T. Malcolm Watson ) WP 1889
- The Red Hussar , comic opera (Libretto: Henry Pottinger Stephens), premiered in 1889
- Domestic Economy , operetta (libretto Francis Burnand), WP 1890
- The Tiger , operetta (Libretto: Francis Burnand), WP 1890
- The Nautch Girl or The Rajah of Chutneypore , Indian comic opera (Libretto: George Dance with poems by Dance and Frank Desprez ), WP 1891
- Killiecrumper , a conversation (libretto: T. Malcolm Watson), WP 1891
- Sandford and Merton , operetta (Libretto: Francis Burnand), WP 1893
- The Professor , a musical dialogue (Libretto: Rutland Barrington ) US 1895
- On the March , musical comedy, joint composition with Tom Crook and Frederic Clay (Libretto: William Yardley , BC Stephenson and Cecil Clay after In Camp by Victoria Vokes ), WP 1896
literature
- Richard Traubner: Operetta: a theatrical history . Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 978-0-415-96641-2 , pp. 187 ff.
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| SURNAME | Solomon, Edward |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Solomon, Teddy (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1895 |
| Place of death | London |