Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)...
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The International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival was founded in 1994 by Ian Smith and his son Neil and is held every summer in England. The two- or three-week...
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suggested changing his name from Ray to Gilbert as a play on the name of the light opera partnership Gilbert and Sullivan. He was paid an advance of £12 (equivalent...
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year-round performances of them, in Britain and abroad, by the repertory company that Gilbert, Sullivan and their producer Richard D'Oyly Carte founded...
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first opera with W. S. Gilbert, Thespis, in 1871. Four years later, the impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte engaged Gilbert and Sullivan to create a one-act...
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Sullivan and Gilbert is a jukebox musical by Ken Ludwig with music and lyrics by Gilbert and Sullivan. Sullivan and Gilbert features over 15 Gilbert and...
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Gilbert and Sullivan have pervasively influenced popular culture in the English-speaking world. Lines and quotations from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas...
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (also known as Gilbert & Sullivan and The Great Gilbert and Sullivan) is a 1953 British musical drama film dramatisation...
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(Gilbert and Sullivan) Iolanthe, Iolanthe (Gilbert and Sullivan) Mad Margaret, Ruddigore (Gilbert and Sullivan) Melissa, Princess Ida (Gilbert and Sullivan) Pitti-Sing...
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Trial by Jury (Gilbert and Sullivan) Alexis, The Sorcerer (Gilbert and Sullivan) Ralph Rackstraw H.M.S. Pinafore (Gilbert and Sullivan) Frederic, The...
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The Mikado (redirect from The List (Gilbert & Sullivan))
Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations. It opened...
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List of patter songs (redirect from I've Jibe and Joke)
Chorus" Arthur Sullivan and F. C. Burnand: Cox and Box – "My Master Is Punctual" (Mr. Cox) Gilbert and Sullivan (referred to below as "Sullivan"): The Gondoliers –...
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Gilbert & Sullivan operas. Baker made his stage debut in 1915 and toured during the 1920s. Baker was born in Birkenhead, the son of Walter Baker and his...
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Dave Ross (category American reporters and correspondents)
Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Born into a Catholic family in Yorktown Heights, New York, Ross is the son of a commercial artist and has a brother and...
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The Pirates of Penzance (category Operas by Gilbert and Sullivan)
Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Its official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in...
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Savoy opera (category Gilbert and Sullivan)
Victorian England in the late 19th century, with W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan as the original and most successful practitioners. The name is derived...
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John Reed (actor) (section Life and career)
Opera Company. Reed has been called "the last great exponent" of the Gilbert and Sullivan comedy roles. The son of a butcher from County Durham, Reed began...
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Sullivan (band), an alternative rock band from Greensboro, North Carolina Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), composer, of the team Gilbert and Sullivan...
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Anthony Warlow (section Gilbert and Sullivan)
Flute (Papageno), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck) and The Tales of Hoffmann. Warlow's Gilbert and Sullivan roles for Opera Australia include the featured...
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Thomas Round (section Gilbert and Sullivan for All)
co-founded a new ensemble, Gilbert and Sullivan for All, with which he toured extensively over the next two decades, singing and serving as one of the company's...
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Musical theatre (section Definitions and scope)
opera works of Jacques Offenbach in France, Gilbert and Sullivan in Britain and the works of Harrigan and Hart in America. These were followed by Edwardian...
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Patter song (category Gilbert and Sullivan)
is a staple of comic opera, especially Gilbert and Sullivan, but it has also been used in musical theatre and elsewhere. The lyric of a patter song generally...
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The Gondoliers, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1889 Götterdämmerung, Wagner, 1876 Goyescas, Granados, 1916 The Grand Duke, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1896 Le Grand Macabre...
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Utopia, Limited (category Operas by Gilbert and Sullivan)
opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was the second-to-last of Gilbert and Sullivan's fourteen collaborations, premiering...
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Charles Mackerras (section Early life and education)
Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He was long associated with the English National Opera (and its predecessor) and Welsh...
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H.M.S. Pinafore (category Operas by Gilbert and Sullivan)
acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London on 25 May 1878, and ran for 571 performances...
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Contralto (section Subtypes and roles in opera)
and Sullivan) Klytemnestra*, Elektra (Richard Strauss) Lel, The Snow Maiden (Rimsky-Korsakov) Little Buttercup, H.M.S. Pinafore (Gilbert and Sullivan) Lucretia...
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Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and George Gershwin, and for a collection of the British duo Gilbert and Sullivan. Szirmai made headlines in 1965, when...
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Baritone (section Gilbert and Sullivan)
comic parts in the tradition of the previous century's comic bass by Gilbert and Sullivan in many of their productions. This did not prevent the French master...
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Soubrette (section Roles in opera and operettas)
(Mozart) Phoebe, The Yeomen of the Guard (Gilbert and Sullivan) Pitti-Sing, The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan) Servilia, La clemenza di Tito (Mozart) Serpetta...
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