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Does anybody know whether the Sir Thomas Beecham-arranged score (a Handel pastiche) was ever produced by anyone? It's a longish one-act with a libretto about the courtship of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Elizabeth Linley. It doesn't include the famous duel(s), but seems to include a lot of material which suggests a sort of eighteenth-century "Enigma Variations".

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Does anybody know whether the Sir Thomas Beecham-arranged score (a Handel pastiche) was ever produced by anyone? It's a longish one-act with a libretto about the courtship of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Elizabeth Linley. It doesn't include the famous duel(s), but seems to include a lot of material which suggests a sort of eighteenth-century "Enigma Variations".

The ballet is called "The Great Elopement" and the suite from it is Love in Bath. Of the original 19 (supposed) numbers, the suite only uses 12 and some 6 recorded. Recordings of which I remember listening to at school, are available as below. The ballet depicts the love affair between the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Elizabeth Linley (daughter of the composer Thomas Linley), all presided over by the famous dandy Beau Nash. The music is mostly taken from Handel's operas Rodrigo, Serse, Ariodante and Il Pastor Fido etc. Sounds fun. On the available recordings, Ilsa Hollweg sings a Serenade towards the end of the suite.

http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/...ove+In+Bath.htm

Coupled with Solomon

or

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album....album_id=264528

This time with music used by Balanchine for Gods go a’Begging

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