The Beauty Stone is an opera, billed as a "romantic musical drama" in three acts, composed by Arthur Sullivan to a libretto by Arthur Wing Pinero and J. Comyns Carr. The medieval Faustian story concerns an ugly, crippled girl, who dreams of being beautiful and meeting a handsome prince. The Devil offers her a magical stone that confers perfect beauty to anyone who wears it. The stone is passed from one character to another, but eventually the prince recognizes the girl's beautiful soul, the stone is discarded, and the disappointed Devil leaves the town.
It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 28 May 1898, closing on 16 July 1898 after a run of just 50 performances, making it the least successful of Sullivan's operas. Reviewers criticised the lyrics and lengthy dialogue scenes and the lack of humour in the story. Savoy audiences, accustomed to more comic and satiric pieces, did not find the opera attractive. The cast of The Beauty Stone included Savoy regulars Walter Passmore, Rosina Brandram, Ruth Vincent, Emmie Owen and Henry Lytton, as well as opera singer Pauline Joran.
The opera was revived by the Carl Rosa Opera Company in 1901–02 on tour in a cut version.
TheBeautyStone is an opera, billed as a "romantic musical drama" in three acts, composed by Arthur Sullivan to a libretto by Arthur Wing Pinero and J...
"Beauty and the Beast" (French: La Belle et la Bête, Italian: La Bèlla e la Bèstia, Latin: Bellă et Bēstia or Fōrmōsa et Bēstia, Spanish: La Bella y la...
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and a feisty young woman. A venture into opera, with a libretto for TheBeautyStone (1898), was not a success, and Pinero thereafter generally stuck to...
years old. In an interview with The New York Times in March 2021, while promoting her memoir TheBeauty of Living Twice, Stone said that she and her sister...
local stone. Designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in 1966, the Cotswolds covers 787 square miles (2,038 km2), making it the largest...
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J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 135. ISBN 0-394-72643-X. "A Handful of Beauty - Shakti | Awards...
England, known as the "Baby Baroness". She is remembered for creating the role of Saida in Arthur Sullivan's 1898 Savoy opera TheBeautyStone. After a touring...
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roles including Iza in The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein (1897–98), Laine in TheBeautyStone (1898) and Princess Laoula in The Lucky Star (1899). She also...
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). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 2. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. Rimmer, Dave (24 November 1983). "ABC: Beauty Stab"...
launched her own production company, Misty Stone Productions. She also produces and sells a line of organic beauty products that include a body butter candle...
between the twelve stones in Aaron's breastplate (signifying the tribes of Israel, as described in the Book of Exodus), the twelve months of the year, and...
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Beauty on a Back Street – Daryl Hall & John Oates". AllMusic. Retrieved September 5, 2018. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House...
other qualities and the pressure to engage in beauty work is much higher for women than men. Beauty work is defined as various beauty "practices individuals...
the creation of buildings, structures, and sculpture using stone as the primary material. Stonemasonry is the craft of shaping and arranging stones,...
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