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

kevin — Sat, 06 May 2023 08:56:03 +0000

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

kevin — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:20:12 +0000

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

kevin — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 14:47:52 +0000

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

kevin — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 11:15:40 +0000

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

kevin — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 11:21:50 +0000

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

kevin — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 09:37:15 +0000

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

kevin — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:20:11 +0000

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

kevin — Sat, 12 May 2018 08:42:11 +0000

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

kevin — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 07:29:17 +0000

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

kevin — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 09:34:35 +0000

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

kevin — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:43:23 +0000

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