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''The Outpost'' is an opera or operetta by the composer Hamilton Clarke with a libretto by A. O'D. Bartholeyns. The story is an adaptation of the Singspiel ''Der vierjährige Posten'' by Theodor Körner with music by Franz Schubert.〔Walters, Michael and George Low. ("The Outpost" ). ''Curtain Raisers'', The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, 25 April 2008, accessed 8 May 2010〕〔Schubert set Körner's libretto to music in 1815, but the piece was not performed until 1869, when it was staged at the Hofoper, Dresden. See: (Klassika ) (German reference site)〕 The piece was one of Clarke's last compositions〔Stone, David. ("Hamilton Clarke", ) ''Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company'', 15 October 2001, accessed 12 May 2010〕 following several operettas that he had composed for the German Reeds.〔Scowcroft Philip L. ("A Twentieth Garland of British Light Music Composers" ). MusicWeb International, accessed 8 May 2010〕 It premiered at the Savoy Theatre from 2 July 1900 to 3 November 1900 as a companion piece to the Gilbert and Sullivan opera ''The Pirates of Penzance'', for the second London revival of ''Pirates'', and also played from 10 November 1900 to 7 December 1900 as a companion piece to ''Patience'', a total of 131 performances. After this, the work was performed on tour from late 1901 through 1902 as a companion piece to ''Pirates'', ''Patience'' and ''Iolanthe''.〔 Both the score and the libretto appear to be lost, but there survives a copy of a fantasia for flute and piano, based on airs from the piece, and so the vocal score may have been published.〔 The fashion in the late Victorian era and Edwardian era was to present long evenings in the theatre, and so producer Richard D'Oyly Carte preceded his Savoy operas with curtain raisers, like ''The Outpost''.〔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〕 ==Roles and original cast== *Walter – H. Carlyle Pritchard *Henry – Charles Childerstone *Karl – W. H. Leon *Colonel – Edwin Bryan *Captain – Powis Pinder/ J. Lewis Campion *Corporal – Iago Lewis () *Kate – Lulu Evans/Nell Richardson Campion played from 30 July to 11 August, while Pinder was substituting as the Pirate King in ''Pirates''. Nell Richardson probably played while Evans was off from 27 August to 8 September. The touring cast was Fred G. Edgar, W. G. Lennox, E. A. White, R. A. Swinhoe, Fred Drawater, Bernard Fisher, Edward L. Bishop and, at times, Frank Robey, Norah Maguire, Florence Beech and Bessel Adams.〔 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「The Outpost (opera)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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