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