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No musical score of Thespis was ever published, and most of the music has been lost. Gilbert and Sullivan went on to become the most famous and successful artistic partnership in Victorian England, creating a string of enduring comic opera hits, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. [1]
The production was filmed and later broadcast by PBS' Great Performances in 1980. A 2-DVD set of this PBS performance was released in the 2000s. [14] A New York City Opera production ran from September 4 through October 18, 1991. Directed by Arthur Alan Seidelman, it starred Louis Quilico as Tony, Elizabeth Walsh as Rosabella, and Karen Ziemba ...
Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) [1] was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" [2] and "father of modernism". [3] He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.
The Auditorium Theatre is a music and performance venue located in the Auditorium Building at 50 E. Ida B. Wells Drive in Chicago, Illinois.Inspired by the Richardsonian Romanesque Style of architect Henry Hobson Richardson, the building was designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan and completed in 1889.
St. Paul's Cathedral, where the work premiered and where Sullivan is buried, by order of Queen Victoria. The Boer War Te Deum was Sullivan's last-completed major work. [2] The text is the ancient Christian hymn as translated in the Book of Common Prayer, showing Sullivan's "personal Christian commitment" at the end of his life. [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 ...
The Krause Music Store is a 1922 structure designed Louis Sullivan and is a National Historic Landmark Building. It is the last of the 126 buildings designed by Sullivan. [2] [3] With its curvilinear plant-like forms and intricate framing of the picture window, the façade of this building is an outgrowth of Sullivan's belief in organic ...
Sullivan wrote his incidental music to Shakespeare's play as his graduation piece while a conservatory student at Leipzig. Felix Mendelssohn was much admired by the tutors at the Leipzig Conservatory, and Sullivan's music, following the pattern of Mendelssohn's famous score for A Midsummer Night's Dream, was chosen for inclusion in the Conservatory’s end-of-year concert at the Leipzig ...