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From Grosvenor House, Park Lane

Arthur Goring Thomas (1850-1892) composed at least one opera, Esmeralda, that may be regarded as a classic of its kind, though it is now scarcely over performed. It was written to a commission given him by Carl Rosa, whose opera company was, then at the height of its fame and was first produced at Drury Lane in 1883. It was afterwards performed at Cologne and Hamburg, the book was also translated into French; and it was given both in French and English by the Carl Rosa Opera Company in revivals over a period of years. There is much grace and beauty in the music, and the opera made history as a fine example of the somewhat slender repertory of English operas.
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