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Violet (opera)
''Violet'' is a 2005 opera by Roger Scruton to a libretto by the composer, based on the biography of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse by her great-niece, Jessica Douglas-Home. The composer has said that "it tells the remarkable story of this woman who lived with four men – it was a story about the history of music, the history of England, about sex, and the difference between the old culture of sex and the new one, and how it all came together in the life of this peculiar woman".〔Dehn (2012)〕 The two-act opera was given the first of two performances on 30 November 2005 at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, directed by Tess Gibbs and conducted by Clive Timms.〔
==Background==
Scruton is better known as a writer and philosopher, and is largely self-taught as a composer.〔Scruton (n.d.)〕 ''Violet'' is the second of Scruton's two operas – it was preceded by the one-act ''The Minister'' (1998).〔Review by Hilary West in ''The Times'', 6 May 1998, cited in Scruton (n.d.)〕 It is based on the life of the harpsichordist Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, who is described in Grove Music Online as follows: "A woman of wealth and social standing (somewhat imperilled by her irregular private life), she did not lead a very active public professional life, but made a considerable impression on the intellectual and artistic circles of the day".〔Salter (n.d.)〕 The composer has written "In Violet’s world high culture, eccentric life-style, and aristocratic manners achieved a never-to-be-repeated synthesis. And when that world was swept away by the First World War, a part of the English soul was lost".〔Scruton (2013)〕 According to the programme note of the premiere performance, ''Violet'' epitomises "the sad magnificence of human folly".〔Conway (2005)〕
The cast of the opera includes Violet, her husband Gordon (with whom she had a ''mariage blanc'') and a circle of relatives and friends including the lesbian composer Ethel Smyth (whose role is sung by a baritone) and three of Violet's male admirers.〔 The score includes a number of references to music of other composers, including Mozart, Wagner and JS Bach, as well as to folksong.〔
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