Just out is a large-size almost catalogue-like publication in English, French and German in the Revue Musicorum series, no. 20/2018.
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Back in 2014, corresponding with the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1, the Schwules Museum in Berlin offered
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Among the various US-American operetta companies, the Comic Opera Guild continues to draw international attention through recordings that offer a
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This summer the historic Frank Matcham designed Buxton Opera House, built in 1903 and seating 902, was host to the
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This year the National G & S Opera Company celebrates its silver jubilee with six new productions. I was invited
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The Pirates of Penzance must be Gilbert and Sullivan’s most staged operetta and, as a director, it must be difficult
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After the success of The Gondoliers in December 1889, D’Oyly Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan had a well-publicised disagreement because Gilbert
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Theatrical mythology has been curiously and undeservedly kind to some folk. Miss Tucker from Ohio went from failure to failure
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Iolanthe is W S Gilbert’s most satirical opera. His libretto continually pokes fun at the British hereditary system, the law
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Great Malvern is an attractive spa town of 30,000 souls, nestling in the English Midlands and surrounded by the Malvern
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The 860 seat Theatre Royal, in the shadow of Windsor Castle, is the third one on the site: built in
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Sasha Regan has been director of the Union Theatre in London for 19 years. It is a small space, seating
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The ‘comic opera’ Patience (or ‘Bunthorne’s Bride’) has an important place in theatrical history. It was the first stage production
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Gilbert and Sullivan’s successor to the phenomenal HMS Pinafore proved to be another enormous international opéra-bouffe hit. Where the former
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