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This category describes people who were particularly known for their friendships or other associations with W. S. Gilbert and/or Arthur Sullivan and/or Richard D'Oyly Carte or their families. It also includes a few later scholars of Gilbert and Sullivan, but people who were or are better known as performers or conductors of Gilbert and Sullivan ...
Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-14804-7. Wilson, Robin; Frederic Lloyd (1984). Gilbert & Sullivan: The Official D'Oyly Carte Picture History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN 978-0-394-54113-6. Wolfson, John (1976). Final Curtain: The Last Gilbert and Sullivan Operas. London ...
Programme from 1883 during the original run. W. S. Gilbert presented his basic idea for a new opera to Arthur Sullivan in October 1881. Gilbert's earliest ideas for the story of Iolanthe originated in his Bab Ballad, "The Fairy Curate": "Once a fairy / Light and airy / Married with a mortal". [1]
[9] [11] Gilbert and Sullivan continued their separate careers, though both continued writing light opera. [12] Finally, in 1877, Carte organised a syndicate of four financiers and formed the Comedy Opera Company, capable of producing a full-length work. [13] By July 1877, Gilbert and Sullivan were under contract to produce a two-act opera. [14]
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The character of Major-General Stanley was widely taken to be a caricature of the popular general Sir Garnet Wolseley.The biographer Michael Ainger, however, doubts that Gilbert intended a caricature of Wolseley, identifying instead the older General Henry Turner, an uncle of Gilbert's wife whom Gilbert disliked, as a more likely inspiration for the satire.
Cabinet card of W. S. Gilbert in about 1880 by Elliott & Fry. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas.
The Bab Ballads became famous on their own, as well as being a source for plot elements, characters and songs that Gilbert recycled in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. They were read aloud at private dinner-parties, at public banquets and even in the House of Lords .