The Dancing Master (opera)

This article is about the opera by Malcolm Arnold. For the 1651 manual, see The Dancing Master. For the play The Gentleman Dancing Master, see William Wycherley. For the 1943 film, see The Dancing Masters.

The Dancing Master, Op. 34, is a one-act 1952 English-language opera by Malcolm Arnold to a libretto by Joe Mendoza after William Wycherley's 1671 play The Gentleman Dancing Master.[1] Written in 1951-1952 for a BBC commission, it was rejected by the BBC as "too bawdy for family audiences".[This quote needs a citation]

  1. ^ Resonus Classics booklet essay by conductor John Andrews