"Which English composer wrote ""The Planets"", ""Somerset Rhapsody"" and the ballet ""The Perfect Fool""?"
The Perfect Fool opera. The Perfect Fool The Perfect Fool is an opera in one act with music and libretto by the English composer Gustav Holst. Holst composed the work over the period of 1918 to 1922. The opera received its premiere at the Covent Garden Theatre, London on 14 May 1923. Holst had originally asked Clifford Bax to write the libretto, but Bax declined. In the score, Holst pokes fun at the works of Verdi, Wagner's "Parsifal" and Debussy. In the opera, the part of the Fool consists of only one word. One interpretation of the possible symbolism of the opera, from
The Fool on the Hill (ballet) as Sergeant Pepper in the original television ballet. The ballet won a number of international television awards. The ballet was later revised for stage performances. It premiered as a live stage production at the Sydney Opera House on 28 April 1976. The Fool on the Hill (ballet) The Fool on the Hill is a ballet created by the British choreographer, Gillian Lynne. In 1975 Gillian Lynne arrived in Australia to create The Australian Ballet's first work expressly commissioned for television which was jointly commissioned by The Australian Ballet and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "The Fool on the Hill" ballet was