Ralph Vaughan Williams’s opera Sir John in Love

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Ralph Vaughan Williams’s opera *Sir John in Love* is a 1929 English-language comic opera based on Shakespeare’s *The Merry Wives of Windsor*, notable for its rich folk-influenced score.

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instanceOf opera ⓘ
basedOn The Merry Wives of Windsor ⓘ
basedOnAuthor William Shakespeare ⓘ
composer Ralph Vaughan Williams ⓘ
composerNationality British ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
era 20th-century opera ⓘ
featuresCharacter Anne Page ⓘ
Bardolph ⓘ
Doctor Caius ⓘ
Fenton ⓘ
Ford ⓘ
Host of the Garter Inn ⓘ
Mistress Ford ⓘ
Mistress Page ⓘ
Nym ⓘ
Page ⓘ
Pistol ⓘ
Sir John Falstaff ⓘ
Slender ⓘ
genre comic opera ⓘ
folk-influenced opera ⓘ
hasFolkMusicInfluence true ⓘ
hasLibrettoSource Shakespearean comedy ⓘ
hasShakespeareSourceGenre comedy ⓘ
hasTheme comic revenge on Falstaff ⓘ
marital fidelity ⓘ
hasTitleRole Sir John Falstaff ⓘ
includesMelody Greensleeves ⓘ
language English ⓘ
librettist Ralph Vaughan Williams ⓘ
notableFor rich folk-influenced score ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
partOfComposerOeuvre stage works of Ralph Vaughan Williams ⓘ
setting Windsor ⓘ
sharesSourceWith Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor ⓘ
Falstaff ⓘ
linked to: Sir John Falstaff
structure four acts ⓘ
style English pastoral ⓘ
late-Romantic ⓘ
subjectMatter comic treatment of middle-class life in Windsor ⓘ
jealousy and deception ⓘ
romantic intrigues ⓘ
timePeriodOfSetting Elizabethan era ⓘ
usesElement English folk song ⓘ
choral writing ⓘ
orchestral interludes ⓘ
yearOfComposition 1929 ⓘ

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