The Merchant of Venice (Sullivan)

Arthur Sullivan composed his suite of incidental music, The Merchant of Venice, in 1871 for a production of Shakespeare's play. It is in seven movements. There is one movement in which the orchestra is joined by a solo singer: the words are not by Shakespeare, but by the 19th-century poet Franceso Rizzelli. The success of this theatre music by Sullivan led within weeks to the beginning of his twenty-five-year collaboration with the librettist W. S. Gilbert.

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