ABSTRACT
Early in 1892 Sullivan had returned to the Riviera for a longer stay than any of his previous—avoiding the expense of extended hotel bills by renting the villa selected on his previous visit. The Villa Masse was located near Monte Carlo in the village of Turlie-sur-Mer. The task which Sullivan hoped to tackle on the Riviera was the composition of Haddon Hall—his first non-Gilbert work for the Savoy. Occasionally he would become well enough to drive out, enjoy the sunshine, take dinner at a fashionable hotel in Monte Carlo, and—of course!—visit the tables. But the extremes of pain returned. He was given morphia injections, lay ‘as if in a coma’, and scarcely recognized the presence of Clotilde and Louis. The principal events at Leeds were to be a revival of Bach’s Mass in B minor and a performance of Mozart’s Requiem, and Wagner was again to be put under tribute with a long selection from Die Meistersinger.
