[Translated from Dutch] The musical idiom is accessible and economic. It is a kind of romanticized parlando drenched in declamation and melodic fragments. There is no large, thematic development or dramatic intensification. Getty pieces Wilde’s text together with safe musical effects, but avoids a sense of recognition and the music at no point feels new. Ultimately the opera The Canterville Ghost has the same effect as the ghost of Sir Simon: there is no surprise or uncertainty.