In the best-known opera by this man, the Dark Fiddler fails to persuade Sali and Vreli to join him on his travels.
This man's first opera, The Magic Fountain, was not performed during his lifetime, though he used music from it in the swamp scene found in Act III of another of his operas. That opera was based on a section of George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes and features the suicide of the quadroon Palmyra after Simon Perez is murdered by the titular voodoo priest, Koanga. In the best-known opera by this man, the Dark Fiddler fails to persuade Sali and Vreli to join him on his travels. FTP, name this creator of the symphonic sketches Brigg Fair and On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring; the German-born British composer of A Village Romeo and Juliet.
This man's first opera, The Magic Fountain, was not performed during his lifetime, though he used music from it in the swamp scene found in Act III of another of his operas.
Frederick Theodore Albert Delius