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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 ...
As soon as the opera premiered, Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte began to license numerous products that used the opera's name, characters, lyrics, lines and designs, not just for licensing fees, but to drive ticket sales; the show "was by far the most successful example [of merchandising] in the 19th century". [33]
The character of the Lieutenant of the Tower, Sir Richard Cholmondeley, is the only character in all of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas that is based overtly on an historical figure. Cholmondeley was the Lieutenant of the Tower from 1513 to 1520, during the reign of Henry VIII .
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 ...
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]
George Grossmith as General Stanley, wearing Wolseley's trademark moustache. Pirates premiered on 31 December 1879 in New York and was an immediate hit. [20] On 2 January 1880, Sullivan wrote, in another letter to his mother from New York, "The libretto is ingenious, clever, wonderfully funny in parts, and sometimes brilliant in dialogue – beautifully written for music, as is all Gilbert ...
[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]
"Three Little Maids from School Are We", sometimes listed as "Three Little Maids", is a song from Act I of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Mikado.The song is a trio for three female characters who are schoolmates; at the end of the song, the three are joined by the chorus of female schoolmates.