| 词条 | The Siege of Rhodes |
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The Siege of Rhodes is an opera written to a text by the impresario William Davenant.[1] The score is by five composers, the vocal music by Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke, and Captain Henry Cooke, and the instrumental music by Charles Coleman and George Hudson.[2] It is considered to be the first English opera. Special permitPart 1 of The Siege of Rhodes was first performed in a small private theatre constructed at Davenant's home, Rutland House, in 1656. Special permission had to be obtained from the Puritan government of Oliver Cromwell, as dramatic performances were outlawed and all public theatres closed. Davenant managed to obtain this by calling the production "recitative music", music being still permissible within the law. When published in 1656, it was under the equivocating title The siege of Rhodes made a representation by the art of prospective in scenes, and the story sung in recitative musick, at the back part of Rutland-House in the upper end of Aldersgate-Street, London. The 1659 reprinting gives the location at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane, a well-known theatre frequented by Samuel Pepys after the Restoration (1660). Pepys himself later read the text and commented in his Diary that it was "certainly (the more I read it the more I think so) the best poem that ever was wrote."[3] Production{{Anchor|Catherine Coleman (actor)}}The Rutland House production included England's first professional actress, Mrs Coleman.{{efn |Catherine Coleman was the daughter of composer Alfonso Ferrabosco and wife of another performer, Edward Coleman, who would be appointed Musician in Ordinary to the royal court after the restoration of King Charles.[4][5]}} Part 2 of The Siege of Rhodes followed in the 1657–1659 season and was first published in 1663.[6]Lost scoreThe plot was based on the 1522 siege of Rhodes, when the island was besieged by the Ottoman fleet of Suleiman the Magnificent. The score of the opera is believed to be lost. However, the original sketches by John Webb for the stage sets, themselves an innovation of the day, are extant. See also
Notes{{notelist}}References1. ^Sir William Davenant (1606–1668) {{DEFAULTSORT:Siege of Rhodes, The}}2. ^Roger Parker, The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994; pp. 39–40. 3. ^1 October 1665. 4. ^{{cite book |last1=Randall |first1=Dale B. J. |title=Winter Fruit: English Drama, 1642-1660 |date=1995 |publisher=University of Kentucky Press |isbn=0-8131-1925-1 |pages=170–171}} 5. ^{{cite book |last1=McManus |first1=Clare |editor1-last=McMullan |editor1-first=Gordon |display-editors=etal |title=Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance |publisher=Bloomsbury |location=London |isbn=978-1-4725-3938-0 |page=225 |chapter=The Vere Street Desdemona}}. 6. ^Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, eds., The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama, Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1978; pp. 203–204. 5 : English-language operas|Operas|Operas by multiple composers|Operas set in Greece|1656 operas |
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