Augustus Harris
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Sir Augustus Henry Glossop Harris was a British actor, impresario, and dramatist, a dominant figure in the West End theatre of the 1880s and 1890s.
Harris in 1889 by "Spy"
Punch cartoon, 1890, suggesting that Harris has ambitions to be Lord Mayor of London
Monument in Brompton Cemetery
Detail of Brompton monument
Ivanhoe (opera)
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Ivanhoe is a romantic opera in three acts based on the 1819 novel by Sir Walter Scott, with music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by Julian Sturgis. It premiered at the Royal English Opera House
Augustus Harris
…Carte's abortive project The Royal English Opera House. Carte commissioned the theatre and opened it in 1891 with Arthur Sullivan's romantic opera Ivanhoe, which ran exceptionally well (161 performances); he followed it with André Messager's The Basoche, for which Harris adapted the original French dialogue…
Illustration of scene from Ivanhoe in The Graphic, 1891
Standard programme cover
Hawes Craven's scenery for Ivanhoe
Souvenir of 100th performance