Basil Willett Charles Hood (5 April 1864 – 7 August 1917) was a British dramatist and lyricist, perhaps best known for writing the libretti of half a dozen Savoy Operas and for his English adaptations of operettas, including The Merry Widow.
He embarked on a career in the British Army, rising to the rank of captain, while writing theatrical pieces in his spare time. After some modest success, Hood and his collaborator, the composer Walter Slaughter, had a major hit with their long-running show, Gentleman Joe, in 1895. Another long-running success was The French Maid (1896). Hood then resigned from the army to pursue his career as a librettist full-time. With Arthur Sullivan and then Edward German, he wrote several well-received pieces for the Savoy Theatre, including The Rose of Persia (1899), The Emerald Isle (1901), Merrie England (1902) and A Princess of Kensington (1903).
After comic opera went out of fashion, Hood turned to Edwardian musical comedy, writing lyrics for The Belle of Mayfair (1906) and The Girls of Gottenberg (1907), among others. He then found his greatest success with adaptations of continental operettas for the impresario George Edwardes, writing English versions of such works as (1907), The Dollar Princess (1908), A Waltz Dream (1908) and The Count of Luxembourg (1911), among others, sometimes drastically rewriting the book and lyrics. At the outbreak of World War I, he took up a demanding post in the British War Office, which is believed to have contributed to his early death.
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farcical musical comedy with music by Walter Slaughter and a libretto by BasilHood. The original production of the musical opened at the Prince of Wales's...
with a book adapted from the French original of Victorien Sardou by BasilHood, lyrics by Adrian Ross, and music by Hugo Felix. The main plot is a love...
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light opera Merrie England by Sir Edward German (1902), the librettist BasilHood introduces another impersonation of Herne as a device to induce a change...
known for a series of successful musical comedies. The French Maid, by BasilHood, with music by Walter Slaughter, first played in London at Terry's Theatre...
The French Maid is a musical comedy in two acts by BasilHood, with music by Walter Slaughter, first produced at the Theatre Royal, Bath, England, under...
two-act comic opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by BasilHood. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 29 November 1899, closing on 28...
seven scenes for children with lyrics by BasilHood and music by Walter Slaughter. It was a revised version of Hood and Slaughter's pantomime Hans Andersen's...
musical in three acts, with music by Leo Fall, adapted into English by BasilHood with lyrics by Adrian Ross (from the 1907 Die Dollarprinzessin with a...
enjoyed such international commercial success. In its English adaptation by BasilHood, with lyrics by Adrian Ross, The Merry Widow became a sensation at Daly's...
George Grossmith, Jr. and L. E. Berman, with lyrics by Adrian Ross and BasilHood, and music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton. P. G. Wodehouse's personal...
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Luxembourg is an operetta in two acts with English lyrics and libretto by BasilHood and Adrian Ross, music by Franz Lehár, based on Lehár's three-act German...
opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and Edward German, and a libretto by BasilHood. The plot concerns the efforts of an Irish patriot to resist the oppressive...
comic operas for the Savoy with other librettists, most successfully with BasilHood in The Rose of Persia (1899). Gilbert also wrote several works, some with...
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