[PDF] The Savoy Operas eBook

Author : Arthur Sullivan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 739 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0141900148

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Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas are some of the world’s best-loved musical works, delighting audiences with their joyous wit, topsy-turvy logic and extravagant wordplay. This glorious treasury is the definitive annotated edition of all fourteen of their operas. From the partially lost work Thespis, the first collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, through the triumphant comic romps The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado, to lesser-performed gems such as the fanciful The Sorcerer and the acerbic lampoon Patience, Gilbert’s libretti are collected here in their most accurate and faithful form. There is a fascinating commentary on each work, telling the extraordinary stories behind the inspiration for the opera and its performance history, and giving plot summaries and original cast lists.

Author : Geoffrey Smith
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN :

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Discusses the plots, characters, satire, and productions of the operas composed by W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.

Author : W. S. Gilbert
Publisher : Herron Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 2008-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 1443738255

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Contents Include: Trial by Jury - The Sorceror - H.M.S. Pinafore; or The Lass that Loved a Sailor - The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty - Patience; or Bunthorne's Bride - Iolanthe; or The Peer and the peri - Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant - The Mikado, or the Town of Titipu - Ruddigore, or The Witch's Curse - The Yeoman of the Guard, or The Merryman and his Maid - The Gondoliers, or The King of Barataria - Utopia Limited, or the Flowers of Progress - The Grand Duke, or the Statutory Duel

Author : Regina B. Oost
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351933701

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Making use of archival resources in the United Kingdom and the United States, Regina B. Oost examines advertisements, promotional materials, and programs, as well as letters, diaries, and account books, to reconstruct the ways in which Richard D'Oyly Carte, W.S. Gilbert, and Arthur Sullivan attracted and shaped the expectations of theatergoers. Her findings place the Savoy operas in the context of other West End productions, considering similarities between Carte's promotional methods and those of managers Henry Irving, John Hollingshead, and Marie and Squire Bancroft. While all of these managers astutely understood patronage of a middle-class audience to be key to their success, the Savoy collaborators made strategic use of circumstances unique to their situation to distinguish Gilbert and Sullivan operas from contemporary theatrical fare. From Trial by Jury (1875) through The Grand Duke (1896), the Savoy operas celebrated the commodity culture beloved of the urban middle classes, validated a moral code that secured the social privileges audience members cherished, and ultimately provided a new model of British national identity that replaced the agrarian ideal espoused by earlier generations. Written in admirably accessible and jargon-free prose, Oost's book will appeal to scholars of theater history, literature, music, and popular culture, as well as general readers interested in Gilbert and Sullivan and the history of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.