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The Sapphire Necklace
''The Sapphire Necklace, or the False Heiress'' (completed by 1867, and at least mostly completed by 1864), was the first opera composed by Arthur Sullivan. It was never performed, and most of the music and libretto are now lost.
==Background==
After his incidental music to ''The Tempest'' brought Arthur Sullivan early fame in 1862,〔 〕 he began to experiment with a wide variety of musical compositions. By 1864, he had written a ballet (''L'Île Enchantée''), several hymns, a few piano solos, and some parlour ballads.〔
〕 He had also set to work on ''The Sapphire Necklace''. As with some of his other compositions at this time, the libretto was provided by his friend Henry F. Chorley. However, this libretto proved particularly difficult to set: Sullivan, later in life, would say that no other libretto had given him more difficulty, and contemporary sources suggest that he may have later decided to suppress the opera due to dislike of the libretto.〔(Article on Sullivan in ''Scribner's Monthly'', vol. XVIII, 1879, p. 906 )〕
Despite these difficulties, the young Sullivan worked diligently at the piece during 1863 and 1864 and had a finished, four-act opera by 1867. However, he was unable to find anyone willing to produce it, aside from some selections performed at The Crystal Palace. Despite this, Sullivan would go on to write a cantata with Chorley (''The Masque at Kenilworth'', 1864), and a few stand-alone songs including "The Long Day Closes" (1868).
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