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The Gilbert & Sullivan Lexicon, 3rd Revised Edition. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Queensbury Press. ISBN 978-0-9667916-1-7. Crowther, Andrew (2000). Contradiction Contradicted: The Plays of W. S. Gilbert. Associated University Presses. ISBN 978-0-8386-3839-2. Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington (1894). The Savoy Opera and the Savoyards. London: Chatto ...
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 ...
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.
All of the operas and musical burlesques that W. S. Gilbert wrote with other collaborators, his Bab Ballads and more than half of Gilbert's non-musical plays. See: Bibliography of W. S. Gilbert and List of W. S. Gilbert dramatic works. Many of the historically important Gilbert and Sullivan performers.
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Gilbert wrote six one-act musical entertainments for the German Reeds between 1869 and 1875. They were successful in their own right and also helped form Gilbert's mature style as a dramatist. [4]
The Sorcerer is a two-act comic opera, with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music by Arthur Sullivan. It was the British duo's third operatic collaboration . The plot of The Sorcerer is based on a Christmas story, An Elixir of Love , that Gilbert wrote for The Graphic magazine in 1876.
The dramatist and author W. S. Gilbert wrote approximately 80 dramatic works during his career, as well as light verse, short stories and other works. He is best remembered for his series of 14 libretti for his joint operatic works with the composer Arthur Sullivan , but many of his other dramatic works were popular successes.