Operetta Research Center » Arthur Sullivan http://operetta-research-center.org The #1 Archive for Musical Theater Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:23:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Ohio Light Opera 2025 – A Survey of the Highlights http://operetta-research-center.org/ohio-light-opera-2025-survey-highlights-harry-forbes/ http://operetta-research-center.org/ohio-light-opera-2025-survey-highlights-harry-forbes/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:46:14 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25610 Where else but at the Ohio Light Opera in Wooster could you find such a wonderfully varied season of musicals

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/ohio-light-opera-2025-survey-highlights-harry-forbes/feed/ 0 “Strike Up the Band”: Gershwin Mixed with Gilbert & Sullivan http://operetta-research-center.org/strike-band-gershwin-mixed-gilbert-sullivan/ http://operetta-research-center.org/strike-band-gershwin-mixed-gilbert-sullivan/#comments Sun, 03 Nov 2024 10:50:08 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25274 Director/conductor Ted Sperling has again done George and Ira Gershwin proud with his one-night performance of the first of the

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/strike-band-gershwin-mixed-gilbert-sullivan/feed/ 1 Ohio Light Opera: The 2024 Saison in Wooster http://operetta-research-center.org/2024-saison-ohio-light-opera-harry-forbes/ http://operetta-research-center.org/2024-saison-ohio-light-opera-harry-forbes/#comments Tue, 13 Aug 2024 10:27:53 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25201 In the decade or so that I’ve been attending Ohio Light Opera’s summer season of operettas and musicals, I continue

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/2024-saison-ohio-light-opera-harry-forbes/feed/ 0 Routlegde’s “Genre Beyond Borders: Reassessing Operetta” http://operetta-research-center.org/routlegdes-genre-beyond-borders-reassessing-operetta/ http://operetta-research-center.org/routlegdes-genre-beyond-borders-reassessing-operetta/#comments Mon, 15 Jul 2024 08:35:48 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25145 Back in the year 2019, the University of Leeds hosted an conference put together by Derek B. Scott and Anastasia

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/routlegdes-genre-beyond-borders-reassessing-operetta/feed/ 0 “The Sorcerer” at Wilton’s Music Hall in London http://operetta-research-center.org/sorcerer-wiltons-music-hall-london-charles-court-opera/ http://operetta-research-center.org/sorcerer-wiltons-music-hall-london-charles-court-opera/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:25:03 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=25106 Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘comic opera’ The Sorcerer is a comparatively early work, coming between Trial By Jury and HMS Pinafore and

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/sorcerer-wiltons-music-hall-london-charles-court-opera/feed/ 0 “Iolanthe”: Betting Dollars to Donuts on These Fairies At Carnegie Hall http://operetta-research-center.org/iolanthe-new-york-city-fairies-carnegie-hall-mastervoices/ http://operetta-research-center.org/iolanthe-new-york-city-fairies-carnegie-hall-mastervoices/#comments Sat, 06 May 2023 08:56:03 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24521 It’s only May, but I’m betting dollars to donuts that this starry production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s seventh comic opera

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/iolanthe-new-york-city-fairies-carnegie-hall-mastervoices/feed/ 0 Stanislavsky and “The Mikado” http://operetta-research-center.org/stanislavsky-mikado-moscow-first-russian-production-laurence-senelick/ http://operetta-research-center.org/stanislavsky-mikado-moscow-first-russian-production-laurence-senelick/#comments Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:20:12 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24431 Operetta was one of the most successful forms of theatre to go transglobal in the 19th and early 20th century.

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/stanislavsky-mikado-moscow-first-russian-production-laurence-senelick/feed/ 3 Gilbert & Sullivan: Is Sexual Innuendo Imbedded in “HMS Pinafore”? http://operetta-research-center.org/sexual-innuendo-imbedded-h-m-s-pinafore/ http://operetta-research-center.org/sexual-innuendo-imbedded-h-m-s-pinafore/#comments Wed, 01 Mar 2023 14:47:52 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=24337 It is an accepted notion that Gilbert and Sullivan were careful to exclude anything in their comic operas that could

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/sexual-innuendo-imbedded-h-m-s-pinafore/feed/ 1 Welcome to the Fifties: “The Yeomen of the Guard” at ENO http://operetta-research-center.org/yeomen-of-the-guard-eno-production-set-in-the-fifties/ http://operetta-research-center.org/yeomen-of-the-guard-eno-production-set-in-the-fifties/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2022 10:15:31 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=23941 Forever branded as Gilbert and Sullivan’s “serious” comic opera, The Yeomen of the Guard is in fact a skilful blend

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/yeomen-of-the-guard-eno-production-set-in-the-fifties/feed/ 1 G&S’s “Patience” Presented by Charles Court Opera in an Updated Version http://operetta-research-center.org/gss-patience-presented-charles-court-opera-updated-version/ http://operetta-research-center.org/gss-patience-presented-charles-court-opera-updated-version/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:17:36 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=23769 Charles Court Opera has been described as one of the leading and most versatile chamber music theatre companies in the

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/gss-patience-presented-charles-court-opera-updated-version/feed/ 0 Revisiting the Emily Soldene Biography. Or: the Postscripta of Publication http://operetta-research-center.org/revisiting-emily-soldene-biography-postscripta-publication/ http://operetta-research-center.org/revisiting-emily-soldene-biography-postscripta-publication/#comments Sun, 14 Aug 2022 08:45:43 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=23727 When you have spent more than 20 years researching and writing a book, when you have lived and breathed the

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/revisiting-emily-soldene-biography-postscripta-publication/feed/ 0 “The Grand Duke of Gerolstein”: A Milanese Byblow of the Grand Duchess http://operetta-research-center.org/grand-duke-gerolstein-byblow-grand-duchess/ http://operetta-research-center.org/grand-duke-gerolstein-byblow-grand-duchess/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:43:44 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=23697 La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein was, arguably, Offenbach’s first truly transglobal success. It benefitted from opening during the Exposition universelle

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