Are You There?
Music by Ruggero Leoncavallo · libretto by Edgar Wallace · premiered 1913 · at Prince of Wales Theatre
Are You There? is a "farcical musical play in two acts" composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo (with interpolations by Lewis F. Muir) with a book by Albert de Courville and lyrics by Edgar Wallace.
Also described as an "operette" by Variety, it premièred unsuccessfully on 1 November 1913 at The Prince of Wales Theatre, London to a rowdy audience which almost became a riot.
Its star, Shirley Kellogg, was Courville's wife.
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About the Composer
Ruggero Leoncavallo is the composer of record for this opera.
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Other Operas by Ruggero Leoncavallo
- Der Roland von Berlin (1840)
- La bohème (1851)
- Chatterton (1876)
- I Medici (1893)
- Edipo re (1920)