Paradoxically, this English opera was the most difficult to sing with textual clarity.

The company performed a wide repertory of German, Italian, Russian and English opera.

Albion and Albanius is the first full-length English opera that still survives.

The reception of the piece showed that Carte had been right: there was a promising future in family-friendly English comic opera.

He would probably have made of it a charming light English opera.

Thomas and Sally was the first English comic opera to be sung throughout (it contained no dialogue).

They are English operas in disguise.

Jean Rigby (born 22 December 1954), is an English opera and concert singer.

So is English opera alive and well?

Italian, French, English and German operas have served as examples, even when composers sought to introduce special, national elements into their work.