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 NERFINISHED
basedOnAuthor William Shakespeare NERFINISHED
composer Ralph Vaughan Williams NERFINISHED
composerNationality British
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
era 20th-century opera
featuresCharacter Anne Page NERFINISHED
Bardolph NERFINISHED
Doctor Caius NERFINISHED
Fenton NERFINISHED
Ford NERFINISHED
Host of the Garter Inn NERFINISHED
Mistress Ford NERFINISHED
Mistress Page NERFINISHED
Nym NERFINISHED
Page
Pistol NERFINISHED
Sir John Falstaff NERFINISHED
Slender NERFINISHED
genre comic opera
folk-influenced opera
hasFolkMusicInfluence true
hasLibrettoSource Shakespearean comedy
hasShakespeareSourceGenre comedy
hasTheme comic revenge on Falstaff
marital fidelity
hasTitleRole Sir John Falstaff NERFINISHED
includesMelody Greensleeves NERFINISHED
language English
librettist Ralph Vaughan Williams NERFINISHED
notableFor rich folk-influenced score
originalLanguage English
partOfComposerOeuvre stage works of Ralph Vaughan Williams
setting Windsor NERFINISHED
sharesSourceWith Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor NERFINISHED
Falstaff NERFINISHED
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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Fantasia on Greensleeves derivedFrom Ralph Vaughan Williams’s opera Sir John in Love