Opera Scotland

Three Musketeers The Three Musketeers

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Music

Reginald Somerville (born 1867; died Tankerton-on-Sea, Kent, 8 July 1948).

Text

Herbert Whitney.

Source

Novel Les Trois Mousquetaires (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père (1802-1870).

 

Premieres

First Performance: Liverpool (Royal Court Theatre), March 1899.

First Performance in Scotland: Glasgow (Theatre Royal), 29 March 1899.

 

Background

It may seem strange, looking from the standpoint of the 21st century, when the story of the Three Musketeers is familiar from countless TV and cinema versions, that in its early decades it remained little known.