Lara, Isidore de (1858-1935)

English composer. He studied composition with Alberto Mazzucato and singing with Francesco Lamperti at the Milan Conservatory, and later went to Édouard Lalo in Paris. He returned to London and became well known in wealthy drawing rooms as a song composer and performer. Later he came under the patronage of the Princess of Monaco, which enabled him to have his operas staged in the Grand Manner.

Works Opera The Light of Asia (1892), Amy Robsart (after Scott's Kenilworth, 1893), Moïna (1897), Messaline (1899), Soléa, Sanga, Naïl, Les Trois Masques (1912), The Three Musketeers (after Dumas, 1921), and others.

Other cantata The Light of Asia (first version of the opera); many songs.