A Southern Maid

The piece was produced under the management of Robert Evett and ran for 306 performances, a good run for the period, although dwarfed by that of its predecessor.

Rawdon is unpopular with the inhabitants of Santiago, not for anything he has done but because of the unscrupulous way in which his father acquired the plantation, depriving local people of their orange groves.

Francesco, however, is pushed off a cliff into the sea, and escapes from drowning by the timely arrival of a boat's crew from Willoughby's yacht.

[1] In The Manchester Guardian, Neville Cardus praised the music as "both popular in its lilt and musicianly in its orchestral detail", and found one passage "good enough to remind us of Elgar.

"[2] The Daily Mirror was enthusiastic: "…yet another wonderful success, sumptuous in colour and rich in musical rhythms … palpitates with fire and life.