 In 1910, Beecham put on an opera season at the Royal Opera House in London.Having access to the Beecham family's considerable fortune, he ignored commercial considerations and programmed several works of limited box-office appeal, including "A Village Romeo and Juliet".The reviews were polite, but "The Times", having praised the orchestral aspects of the score, commented, "Mr. Delius seems to have remarkably little sense of dramatic writing for the voice".