Rutland Boughton

Ask most listeners, and even many musicians, what opera has received the greatest number of consecutive performances in a single production, and some may scratch their heads, pondering Puccini's La Boheme, he most celebrated works of Verdi, or Wagner, or anyone else that you're likely to name. The answer is The Immortal Hour by Rutland Boughton. The what, by whom? The Immortal Hour, composed in the early 1920's, ran for 216 consecutive performances in London beginning in October of 1922, and an additional 160 consecutive revival performances from November of 1923, and wa...