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The Invention of English Opera: the surprising history of opera in 17th century England, part one, from masques to dramatic-opera
[…] Albion and Albanius, and the music was written in 1685. However King Charles II died in 1685, and after the period of court mourning for the late King and many other delays, the sumptuous production (costing the company over £4000 to mount) had its premiere on Sunday, 3 June that same year at Dorset Garden Theatre, London. This was "a very unlucky day", observes John Downes in his historical review of the English stage, Roscius Anglicanus, "being the day the Duke of Monmouth landed in the west: the nation being in a great consternation, it was performed but six times, which not answering half the charge they were at, involved the company very much in debt." This fiasco helps explain the rarity of operas in the 1680s, until Londoners had settled down after the Glorious Revolution of 1689. In addition, events of the five years of King […]
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