Posts Tagged 'Savoy Operas'

“Iolanthe”: Betting Dollars to Donuts on These Fairies At Carnegie Hall

It’s only May, but I’m betting dollars to donuts that this starry production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s seventh comic opera

Operetta was one of the most successful forms of theatre to go transglobal in the 19th and early 20th century.

It is an accepted notion that Gilbert and Sullivan were careful to exclude anything in their comic operas that could

I feel very honoured and flattered to have been asked to write about the most important book to be written

The gimmick with which the West End revival of Sasha Regan’s Pirates of Penzance at the Palace Theatre was recently

I’m an old conservative. I was ‘a little con-ser-va-tive’ (as opposed to a ‘little li-ber-al’) from the moment I was

New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players’s inspired pairing of two Victorian one-act comic operas – Ages Ago and Mr. Jericho

Theatrical mythology has been curiously and undeservedly kind to some folk. Miss Tucker from Ohio went from failure to failure

Gilbert and Sullivan’s successor to the phenomenal HMS Pinafore proved to be another enormous international opéra-bouffe hit. Where the former

Heinrich Marschner’s 1828 “Gothic” opera Der Vampyr is set in England, the characters have names such as Lord Ruthven and

In Print

Quite simply put, this is the best book on Gilbert & Sullivan that I have come across. Not in a