The Sapphire Necklace (Sullivan, Arthur)

Composition Year	1862-67
Genre Categories	Operas; Theatrical Works; For voices, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices with orchestra; English language

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Publisher. Info.	Holograph manuscript, n.d.[1863?].
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Publisher. Info.	London: Novello, Ewer & Co., No. 784, 1898.
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Work Title	The Sapphire Necklace
Alternative. Title
Composer	Sullivan, Arthur
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IAS 120
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1862-67
First Performance.	Unperformed (in full form; surviving fragments have been performed)
Librettist	Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808–1872)
Language	English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	voices and orchestra, chorus?
External Links	Wikipedia article; Gilbert & Sullivan Archive
Extra Information	The opera, mostly lost, survives only in fragmentary form.

William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's Savoy Operettas
Thespis, or the Gods Grown Old (1871, lost) Trial by Jury (1875) The Sorcerer (1877) H.M.S. Pinafore, or The Lass that Loved a Sailor (1878) The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty (1879) Patience, or Bunthorne’s Bride (1881) Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri (1882)	Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant (1884) The Mikado, or The Town of Titipu (1885) Ruddigore, or The Witch’s Curse (1886) The Yeomen of the Guard, or The Merryman and his Maid (1888) The Gondoliers, or The King of Barataria (1889) Utopia Limited, or The Flowers of Progress (1893) The Grand Duke, or The Statutory Duel (1896)
Other Operas and Operettas
The Sapphire Necklace, or The False Heiress (1864, lost) Cox and Box, or The Long Lost Brothers (1866) The Contrabandista, or The Law of the Ladrones (1867) The Zoo (1875) Ivanhoe (1890)	Haddon Hall (1892) The Chieftain (1894) The Beauty Stone (1898) The Rose of Persia, or The Story-Teller and the Slave (1899) The Emerald Isle, or The Caves of Carrig-Cleena (1900)