earned praise in the role. Indeed, faults in Gilbert's libretto were likely as much to blame as any failings of McIntosh. The Observer wrote, "It is a strange compound of trifling and tragedy, of gossamer and gnashings of teeth ... the effect is a little like that of an act of Othello pieced into The Merry Wives of Windsor." Rutland Barrington, in his 1911 memoir, wrote: "I am inclined to attribute much of the failure of the opera to catch on to the fact that, owing to the entire absence of men's voices to balance the mass of soprani and alti, one's ears suffered from an unavoidable weariness, and a longing for the robust report of the male choristers; the humour of the play also seemed to me to have evaporated, to a great extent, with its conversion" to a comic opera. Fallen Fairies has never been revived professionally, and has hardly ever been revived at all, although it was given a semi-staged concert revival in 2014 at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Harrogate, England. Early in 1909, Workman had planned to produce revivals of several Gilbert and Sullivan operas (and two Gilbert operas) at the Savoy after Fallen Fairies, but after his dispute with Gilbert, this idea was out of the question. Roles and original cast Fairies The Fairy Ethais (tenor) – Claude Flemming The Fairy Phyllon (bass-baritone) – Leo Sheffield Selene, the Fairy Queen (soprano) – Nancy McIntosh (replaced by Amy Evans) Darine, (mezzo-soprano) – Madie Hope Zayda (mezzo-soprano) – Jessie Rose Locrine (contralto) – Ethel Morrison Zara (speaking role) – Mabel Burnege Cora (mezzo-soprano) – Rita Otway Leila (mezzo-soprano) – Ruby Gray Neodie (speaking role) – Alice Cox Fleta (mezzo-soprano) – Marjorie Dawes Chloris (non-speaking role) – Miriam Lycett Maia (non-speaking role) – Gladys Lancaster Ina (non-speaking role) – Isabel Agnew Lutin, a serving fairy (comic baritone) – C. H. Workman Mortals Sir Ethais, a Hunnish Knight (tenor) – Claude Flemming Sir Phyllon, a Hunnish Knight (bass-baritone) – Leo Sheffield Lutin, Sir Ethais's Henchman (comic baritone) – C. H. Workman Synopsis Act I The scene is laid in Fairyland, outside the Fairy Queen's bower, which for the purposes of the opera, is supposed to be located on the upper side of a cloud which floats over the Earth. The fairies sing of the "wicked world" below, which they believe is populated by mortals who sin