Performing Arts and the Gothic | Henry Siddons (Opera Date 1794)
HENRY SIDDONS (OPERA DATE 1794)
SOURCE: Siddons, Henry. "Prologue and Act 1, Scene 1." In The Sicilian Romance, or, The Apparition of the Cliffs, An Opera, by Henry Siddons: As Performed with Universal Applause at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, pp. 9-12. London: J. Barker, 1794.
The following excerpt comprises Act I, scene 1, of Siddons's operatic adaptation of Ann Radcliffe's 1790 novel A Sicilian Romance.
A Wood, and a Tower of the Castle, with the Door. The Lights down, and the Moon shining.
ENTER LINDOR AND MARTIN, DISGUISED AS PILGRIMS.
AIR—Lindor.
Borne on hope's deluding gale,
Yon tall turrets I explore;
Trembling fears and doubts assail,
As I tread the dang'rous shore.
Thus the sea-boy on the mast,
When he hears the howling...
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