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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 ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Gilbert and Sullivan" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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 ...
The First Night Gilbert and Sullivan. London: Chappell & Co. Ltd. Baily, Leslie (1952). The Gilbert & Sullivan Book. London: Cassell & Company Ltd. Benford, Harry (1999). The Gilbert & Sullivan Lexicon, 3rd Revised Edition. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Queensbury Press. ISBN 978-0-9667916-1-7. Bradley, Ian (1996). The Complete Annotated Gilbert and ...
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.
Cover of piano transcriptions, 1887. Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri (/ aɪ. oʊ ˈ l æ n θ i /) is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, first performed in 1882.
In The Getaway Blues by William Murray, the main character names all his racehorses after Gilbert and Sullivan characters and constantly quotes G&S. [131] Gilbert and Sullivan Set Me Free is a novel by Kathleen Karr based on a historical event in 1914, when the inmates of Sherborn Women's Prison in Massachusetts, U.S., put on a performance of ...
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 .