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[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]
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 ...
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The comically convoluted plot, by Robin Miller and Leo Rost, with additional material by Gene Thompson and Victor Spinetti, is a pastiche of many of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, particularly Trial by Jury, The Sorcerer, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, Patience, Iolanthe and The Mikado, in which the protagonist, Able Seaman Dick ...
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 last of Gilbert's "fairy comedies", this was one of Gilbert's favourite plays. Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith (1876). A three-act drama that introduced antecedents of some of Gilbert's later characters. Engaged (1877). Probably the most famous of Gilbert's non-Sullivan works for the theatre.
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 .