Sir Arthur Sullivan's Grand Opera "Ivanhoe" and Its Musical Precursors: Adaptations of Sir Walter Scott's Novel for the Stage, 1819-1891 - Tapa dura

"Having made use of the original textual sources and the principal archival collections, Jeff Daily is ideally positioned to recount and interpret this history." - Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Curator The Harvard Theatre Collection.... the author allows room for the reader to draw their own conclusions by uncovering discrepancies in source materials and reporting more thorough contexts for several of Sullivan's critics." - Dr. Jill Miller-Thorn, D.M.A. Professor, Chair of the Music Division Five Towns College "... will surely become an important addition to the Sullivan bibliography." - Robert Hansen, D.M.A. Professor of Voice and Opera West Texas A&M University"

Explores the drama behind the trajectory of the opera, Ivanhoe, and Arthur Sullivan's venture into Grand Opera.