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The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan
| Author | : Arthur Sullivan |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 739 |
| Release | : 2008-10-30 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0141900148 |
Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas are some of the world’s best-loved musical works, delighting audiences with their joyous wit, topsy-turvy logic and extravagant wordplay. This glorious treasury is the definitive annotated edition of all fourteen of their operas. From the partially lost work Thespis, the first collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, through the triumphant comic romps The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado, to lesser-performed gems such as the fanciful The Sorcerer and the acerbic lampoon Patience, Gilbert’s libretti are collected here in their most accurate and faithful form. There is a fascinating commentary on each work, telling the extraordinary stories behind the inspiration for the opera and its performance history, and giving plot summaries and original cast lists.
The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
| Author | : Arthur Sullivan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1224 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780198167105 |
The comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan are a performing arts phenomenon. Wildly popular when first produced, they are if anything even more popular today. The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan provides the complete text of all thirteen of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas still being performed today, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado. Each work is thoroughly annotated, with the text, including stage directions, given on the right-hand page, and the notes on the left. The annotations provide a wealth of information--everything from the identity of real-life people mentioned in the opera, to clear explanations of obscure words and phrases (such as legal terms) and other literary references, to comments from first-night critics, and much more. In addition, Bradley has written a marvelously informative introduction to the book as well as superb introductions to each piece, describing the genesis of the work, its performance history, and other fascinating tidbits. A goldmine of information, The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan will delight the hearts of Savoyards everywhere.
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
| Author | : W. S. Gilbert |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 1137 |
| Release | : 2022-09-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3368304569 |
Reproduction of the original.
A Most Ingenious Paradox
| Author | : Gayden Wren |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780195145144 |
Most books written about Gilbert & Sullivan have focused on the authors rather than the works. With this detailed examination of all fourteen operas, Gayden Wren fills this void. His bold thesis finds the key to the operas' longevity, not in the clever lyrics, witty dialogue, or catchy music, but in their timeless themes, which speak to audiences as powerfully now as they did the first time the operas were performed. This volume is essential reading for any devotee of these enchanting works, or indeed for anyone who loves musical theater.
Gilbert and Sullivan
| Author | : Kurt Gänzl |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 2021-10-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1438485476 |
In this, the first book to focus on the original cast members of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas, world-renowned musical theater expert Kurt Gänzl provides a concise history of the writing and production of each opera, vividly colored by the often little-known life stories of these early performers. Meticulously researched and lavishly illustrated with rare photographs, Gilbert and Sullivan: The Players and the Plays delves into the professional and personal lives of the British and American actors and singers who created the celebrated "famous fourteen" Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan
| Author | : David Eden |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2009-08-06 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0521888492 |
An international team of contributors, including film director Mike Leigh, presents fresh insights into the work of Gilbert and Sullivan.
The Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan
| Author | : Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1894 |
| Genre | : Operetta |
| ISBN | : |
W.S. Gilbert
| Author | : Jane W. Stedman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Composers |
| ISBN | : 9780198161745 |
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) was the most brilliant dramatist of Victorian England. A daring and cynical playwright, the forerunner of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, he was also a prolific journalist and humorous poet (his Bab Ballads are still widely read), and he achieved worldwide fame through his long collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan, a collaboration that created such classics as H. M. S. Pinafore, The Mikado, and all the other Savoy operas. Now the story of this remarkable writer's life - and of his stormy relationship with Sullivan - is here chronicled by a renowned authority on Gilbert and on the theatrical and literary scene in Victorian London. For this biography, Jane W. Stedman has returned to original sources, has interviewed survivors, and has scoured a whole variety of Victorian periodicals for reviews, and personal comment. Gilbert emerges as a much more complex and interesting figure than has previously been thought. The book is a worthy companion piece to Arthur Jacobs's recent biography Arthur Sullivan: A Victorian Musician.
