Albion and Albanius is an opera, closely resembling a French tragédie en musique, by Louis Grabu with an English libretto by John Dryden. The words were...
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King Arthur (opera) (section Sources and influences)
February 1685 and Albion and Albanius was first inauspiciously performed in June 1685 during the Monmouth Rebellion. It was a failure and Dryden shelved...
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flop in the Restoration era: Albion and Albanius – an allegorical drama in praise of the king with a text by John Dryden and music by Louis Grabu – is in...
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Bathos (section 17th and 18th centuries)
described one of the breath-taking and magically extravagant settings for his Restoration spectacular, Albion and Albanius (1684–85): "The cave of Proteus...
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following the failure of Dryden's Albion and Albanius. The plan was to make audiences come back to the playhouse and attend an affordable mini-spectacle...
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1674, and wrote music for John Dryden's Albion and Albanius in 1685. In 1693 he left England, the only land where he had achieved any fame, and completely...
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special-effects-laden machine plays of the entire Restoration period, Albion and Albanius (1684–85): The Cave of PROTEUS rises out of the Sea; it consists...
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and John Dryden's 1685 opera Albion and Albanius concerning the mythical origins of the Ancient Britons. In the wake of the Glorious Revolution and the...
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John Dryden (category 17th-century English dramatists and playwrights)
1682/) The Duke of Guise, a Tragedy (1682/1683) with Nathaniel Lee Albion and Albanius, an Opera (1685/1685) Don Sebastian, a Tragedy (1690/1690) Amphitryon...
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Timeline of musical events (section 1490s and 1500s)
music – Albion and Albanius, opera, by Louis Grabu; Birth of: Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Häendel (German composers, organists and harpsichordists);...
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Stuart Restoration (section England and Wales)
spiral of huge expenditure and correspondingly huge losses or profits. A fiasco such as John Dryden's Albion and Albanius would leave a company in serious...
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(29 September 1976). The Works of John Dryden, Volume XV: Plays: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, Amphitryon. University of California Press. p. 330...
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spiral of huge expenditure and correspondingly huge losses or profits. A fiasco such as John Dryden's Albion and Albanius would leave a company in serious...
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Lancashire Witches and Tegue O'Divelly the Irish Priest (1681) libretto by Thomas Shadwell; music by John Eccles Albion and Albanius (1685) libretto by...
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The Finnish Prisoner Louis Grabu (fl. 1665–1690, died after 1693): Albion and Albanius Paul Graener (1872–1944): Hanneles Himmelfahrt Enrique Granados (1867–1916):...
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from 1683 to 1703. The ode was sponsored by the Musical Society of London and twice set to music. Saint Cecilia was, according to her legend, a Roman virgin...
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Indian Queen (with Robert Howard), King Arthur for Louis Grabu: Albion and Albanius Gottfried von Einem (1918–1996) for his own music: Dantons Tod (with...
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Friar, or the Double Discovery is a tragicomedy by John Dryden, produced and published in 1681. Torrismond, Son of Sancho, the deposed King, believing...
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The Duke of Guise, a Tragedy is a tragedy by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee, published in 1683. The King of France. Duke of Guise. Duke of Mayenne. Grillon...
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