Claude Duval
Music by Edward Solomon · libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens · premiered 1881
Claude Duval – or Love and Larceny is a comic opera with music by Edward Solomon to a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens.
The plot is loosely based on supposed events in the life of the seventeenth century highwayman, Claude Duval.
The piece was first produced at the Olympic Theatre, London, on 24 August 1881, under the management of Michael Gunn.
It ran until the end of October.
From January to March 1882, a D'Oyly Carte touring company played the work in the British provinces.
Another D'Oyly Carte company played it in New York in March and April 1882 under Richard D'Oyly Carte's personal supervision, in tandem with Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience.
In New York, a few local references were interpolated into Blood-red Bill's comic song, "William's Sure to Be Right."
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About the Composer
Edward Solomon (25 July 1855 – 22 January 1895) was an English composer, conductor, orchestrator and pianist. He died at age 39 by which time he had written dozens of works produced for the stage, including several for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, including The Nautch Girl (1891). Early in his career, he was a frequent collaborator of Henry Pottinger Stephens. He had a bigamous marriage with Lillian Russell in the 1880s.
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Other Operas by Edward Solomon
- Billee Taylor (1880)