When he later retrieved and published them in 1870, he was subject to an excoriating attack by the literary critic Robert Buchanan and was accused of celebrating ‘merely animal sensations’ in his sonnets. When Rossetti’s first wife and muse, the Pre-Raphaelite poet, painter and model Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Siddal, died in 1862 at the age of 32, Rossetti buried his poems with her. It draws together six of the most delicate, devoted and delirious sonnets by poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Love Sight, Silent Noon, Love’s Minstrels, Heart’s Haven, Death in Love and Love’s Last Gift. Ahead of the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth in 2022, Opera Holland Park is releasing a performance of The House of Life. Leading British tenor David Butt Philip and the acclaimed pianist and accompanist James Baillieu were filmed for Opera Holland Park by Simon Wall at Leighton House Museum.Ĭontemporaneous with Vaughan Williams’s bracing Robert Louis Stevenson cycle, Songs of Travel, the song cycle The House of Life is an uninhibited and intimate celebration of mutual love.
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