The Critic (opera) explained

The Critic, Op. 144 (1915), is an opera by Charles Villiers Stanford.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Book: Dibble, Jeremy. Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician. Jeremy Dibble. Oxford University Press. 2002. 978-0-19-816383-1. 427. In the summer of 1915 Stanford began work on his third comic opera, The Critic or An Opera Rehearsed, taken from the largely unaltered second and third acts of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's eponymous play in a libretto constructed by Lewis Cairns James (a colleague at the RCM) and, to a lesser extent, by Stanford himself..