Talk:Merrie England (opera)

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[edit] Association with D'Oyly Carte

Was the original production a D'Oyly Carte production? If so, it should say so in the intro. Also, the article mentions amateur productions, but have there been any other pro productions? Best regards, --Ssilvers 22:46, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Although it was produced at the Savoy Theatre, I believe Helen D'Oyly Carte was not associated with the theatre at that time. The opening paragraph should be a bit more expansive on this, however.

I've re-ordered the material to fit the standard pattern of the opera articles. The background material, which was in several places, was brought together, but it needs to be "knitted" together.

Some of the background material probably reflects an editor's opinion, rather than a citable source. However, I must say this is an enormous improvement over where the article was a week ago. Marc Shepherd 12:38, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Roles List

I added all the roles which appear in the characters list at the front of the vocal score (there's your "too many weak and unimportant characters" someone referenced as a criticism). I then went in and added voice parts for all of the newly listed roles which also appeared somewhere in the vocal score. The ones that don't have voice parts are not necessarilly speaking roles, though. In late Act II, there are staged performances for Queen with singing parts for characters such as "Princess" and "King". I don't have a copy of the libretto, the vocal score does not contain dialogue, and no plot summaries specify who plays whom in the stagings in the second act, so I'm just going to leave off voice parts until those can be determined at a later point. --Anivron 02:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I have a libretto, and the roles of the play in the second act have very little to do. None of them sing (except Wilkins as the King and the May Queen as the Princess). Slfarrell 01:20, 25 November 2006 (UTC)