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''Quite an Adventure'' is a one-act comic opera by Edward Solomon with a libretto by Frank Desprez. The farcical plot concerns a house-guest who mistakes his hostess's husband for an intruder. The opera's first run in London was under the management of Michael Gunn, but the piece was played by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the 1880s and 1890s as a curtain raiser to full-length Savoy operas, both on tour and later in London. ==Background and productions== The fashion in the late Victorian era was to present long evenings in the theatre, and so producer Richard D'Oyly Carte preceded his Savoy operas with curtain raisers such as ''Quite an Adventure''.〔Lee Bernard. ("Swash-buckling Savoy curtain-raiser", ) ''Sheffield Telegraph'', 1 August 2008〕 W. J. MacQueen-Pope commented, concerning such curtain raisers: :This was a one-act play, seen only by the early comers. It would play to empty boxes, half-empty upper circle, to a gradually filling stalls and dress circle, but to an attentive, grateful and appreciative pit and gallery. Often these plays were little gems. They deserved much better treatment than they got, but those who saw them delighted in them. ... () served to give young actors and actresses a chance to win their spurs ... the stalls and the boxes lost much by missing the curtain-raiser, but to them dinner was more important.〔MacQueen-Pope, Walter James. ''Carriages at Eleven'' (1947), London: Robert Hale and Co., p. 23〕 ''Quite an Adventure'' was first produced on tour in the English provinces by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as a curtain raiser for ''H.M.S. Pinafore''.〔"Advertisements & Notices", ''The Bristol Mercury'', 11 October 1880, p. 4; and Rollins and Witts, p. ix〕 The London premiere was at the Olympic Theatre on 7 September 1881, under the management of Michael Gunn, as a companion piece for Solomon's operetta ''Claude Duval.''〔"Advertisements & Notices", ''The Pall Mall Gazette'', 7 September 1881, p. 13〕 It ran until the end of October 1881.〔''The Standard'', 29 October 1881, p. 4〕 D'Oyly Carte again toured the piece in tandem with ''Patience'' in 1881,〔''The Bristol Mercury'', 7 December 1881, p. 4〕 and with ''Pinafore'' and ''The Pirates of Penzance'' in 1882,〔Rollins and Witts, p. 40; and ''The Standard,'' 11 July 1882, p. 4〕 and 1883.〔Rollins and Witts, p . 44; and "Provincial Theatricals", ''The Era'', 21 July 1883, p. 9〕 ''Quite an Adventure'' was revived at the Savoy Theatre from 15 December 1894 to 29 December 1894 as a companion piece to ''The Chieftain''.〔Walters, Michael and George Low. (''Quite an Adventure'' ). The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, accessed 25 June 2010〕 Further provincial performances were given when D'Oyly Carte took ''The Vicar of Bray'' and ''The Chieftain'' on tour between 1892 and 1895.〔〔Rollins and Witts, pp. 92 and 94; and "A New Opera at the Theatre Royal", ''The Huddersfield Daily Chronicle'', 19 February 1895, p. 3〕 A copy of the vocal score (published in 1882 by Chappell & Co.), but no printed libretto, is found in British Library. The score contains music only, no dialogue. A copy of the libretto is in the Lord Chamberlain's collection (filed September/October 1880).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quite an Adventure」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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