"Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, reached the stage. Dostoevsky published ""The Raw Youth"" (or ""The Adolescent""). In 1876 Lewis Carroll published ""The Hunting of the Snark"". Mark Twain published ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"". In 1877 Leo Tolstoy published ""Anna Karenina"". In 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta ""HMS Pinafore, or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor"" was staged. In 1879 Octave Crémazie died. Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta ""The Pirates of Penzance"", or, ""The Slave of Duty"" was staged. In 1880 Dostoevsky published ""The Brothers Karamazov"". Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun published ""Hunger"". In 1881 Dostoevsky died. Oscar Wilde published his first book"
"in the ""HMS Yakko"" episode of ""Animaniacs"" in a song about surfing a whale. General Lists of productions The Pirates of Penzance The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences and critics. Its London debut was on 3 April 1880, at the Opera Comique, where it ran for 363 performances, having already been playing"
"The Pirates of Penzance The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences and critics. Its London debut was on 3 April 1880, at the Opera Comique, where it ran for 363 performances, having already been playing successfully for more than three months in New York. The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st"
"2003 as well as touring them extensively. Another G&S-related piece is ""The Burglar's Opera"", with a script by Stephen Wyatt, based on W. S. Gilbert's 1890 short story, ""Burglar's Story"", mixed with elements of ""The Threepenny Opera"". The music was adapted by Jeff Clarke from Arthur Sullivan's orchestral music. This toured in 2005 and 2006. In 2007, Clarke introduced a new piece called ""Nightmare Songs"" in which Simon Butteriss plays an understudy to the principal comedian of a fictionalised D'Oyly Carte Opera Company during World War II and must be ready to go on at very short notice to play"
"La Dori La Dori, overo Lo schiavo reggio (Doris, or The Royal Slave) is a tragi-comic opera in a prologue and three acts composed by Antonio Cesti to a libretto by Giovanni Filippo Apolloni. It was first performed in the court theatre at Innsbruck in 1657. The story is set in Babylon on the shores of the Euphrates and is a convoluted tale of mistaken identities—a female protagonist who disguised as a man eventually regains her lost lover, and a man disguised as a woman who causes another man to fall in love with him. In several respects it resembles"
"Donizetti adaptation, ""Lucia, The Bride of Lammermoor"". As it turned out, the opera would be the company's only non-comic piece, and Clarke decided that the company was better off making a name for itself through its zany comic productions than competing in the standard repertoire against the other small touring British opera companies. After introducing its first three Gilbert and Sullivan productions, the company turned to other works, as Clarke feared that it would become identified exclusively as a G&S company. In 1997, when the Royal Opera House had to close for renovations, they presented a season at the Shaftesbury"
"Night"" as well as the 1997 film ""Wilde"". In the pilot episode of the 2008 CBS series, ""Flashpoint"", a police officer and his partner sing the policeman's song. In the 2009 ""Criminal Minds"" episode ""The Slave of Duty"", Hotch quotes ""Oh dry the glist'ning tear"". In addition to reminiscences, picture books and music books by performers, conductors and others connected with, or simply about, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, the Light Opera of Manhattan, the J. C. Williamson Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company and other Gilbert and Sullivan repertory companies, numerous fictional works have been written using the G&S operas"
"roster, eventually carrying over 30 shows in its repertory. Its first non-G&S show was Victor Herbert's ""Naughty Marietta"", with guest artist Joan Sena-Grande in the title role, to open its tenure at the Eastside Playhouse in 1975. Larry Raiken played Captain Dick Warrington. The next operetta with a guest star was Rudolph Friml's 1925 hit, ""The Vagabond King"", with Broadway veteran Jeanne Beauvais as Huguette. In the mid-1970s, the company asked Alice Hammerstein Mathias (Oscar Hammerstein II's daughter) to create a new translation of Franz Lehár's ""The Merry Widow"". The translation is lighter and focuses more on the humorous aspects"
"""Hollywood Pinafore"", the 1975 animated film ""Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done"" and, more recently,""Gondoliers"" (2001; a Mafia-themed adaptation) and ""Pinafore Swing"" (2004), each of which was first produced at the Watermill Theatre, in which the actors also served as the orchestra, playing the musical instruments. Shows that use G&S songs to tell the story of the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership include a 1938 Broadway show, ""Knights of Song"", and a 1975 West End show called ""Tarantara! Tarantara!"" Many other musicals parody or pastiche the operas. However, the influence of Gilbert and Sullivan on goes beyond musical theatre to comedy in"
"La fausse esclave La fausse esclave (""The False Slave"") is an opéra comique in one act by Christoph Willibald Gluck. It has a French-language libretto based on Louis Anseaume and Pierre-Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville’s libretto for ""La fausse aventurière"" (""The False Adventuress""), an opéra comique by Jean Louis Laruette. It was first performed on 8 January 1758 at the Burgtheater in Vienna. The full score is lost, but a keyboard version is extant. Klaus Hortschansky has noted that ""La fausse esclave"" is one of Gluck's few stageworks where the composer did not use musical material from prior works, or recycle"
"material from it into future works. The story is of an intrigue undertaken to secure a father’s assent to his daughter’s marriage. La fausse esclave La fausse esclave (""The False Slave"") is an opéra comique in one act by Christoph Willibald Gluck. It has a French-language libretto based on Louis Anseaume and Pierre-Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville’s libretto for ""La fausse aventurière"" (""The False Adventuress""), an opéra comique by Jean Louis Laruette. It was first performed on 8 January 1758 at the Burgtheater in Vienna. The full score is lost, but a keyboard version is extant. Klaus Hortschansky has noted that"
"Gotham Chamber Opera Gotham Chamber Opera was a professional opera company located in New York City. The company was founded in 2000 under the name of the Henry Street Chamber Opera by Artistic Director Neal Goren and specialized in producing rarely performed chamber operas from the Baroque era to the present. In 2003, it changed its name to the Gotham Chamber Opera (GCO) after incorporating as an independent 501(c)(3) organization. Its Executive Director was Edward Barnes, who took over from David Bennett. It closed in 2015. The company first presented the American premiere of Mozart's ""Il sogno di Scipione"" (1771),"
"August and September 2010, the G&S Opera Company presented its first production outside of the festival, ""The Yeomen of the Guard"", at Oxford Castle. Two of its 2012 productions were repeated in Harrogate late in August, and all three of its 2013 productions transferred there in late August. The company toured three of its 2014 productions in repertory from June to August 2014, giving seven performances in each of six cities. Since 2015, besides Harrogate, the company has toured its productions to several cities and towns in the UK, including the Festival's previous home, Buxton. ""Sky Arts"" called the Gilbert"
"but they are so skilfully conceived and realised as to be totally engaging. In their way, they are every bit as rewarding as far more ambitious, not to say pretentious stagings. Director Jeff Clarke can be relied upon to provide a whole new perspective on a piece through his brilliant translations"". A review of the company's 2009 adaptation of ""The Sorcerer"" in ""Bucks Free Press"" stated, ""Opera Della Luna is innovative, imaginative and inventive. Its grasp on musical theatre is astounding and director Jeff Clarke should be applauded for bringing a new spirit of the age to G&S."" ""Opera Now"""
"its first production, ""The Mikado"", received such a favourable response that they changed their name to Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company to more clearly reflect the new city base and repertoire of the company. In the 1980s, the company played a couple of 'guest weeks' at the Buxton Opera House with ""The Mikado"" and later ""The Yeomen of the Guard"". Under the direction of co-founder Andrew Nicklin, the company began to build a reputation for presenting updated, or ""non-traditional"" G&S productions. Under Nicklin, the company took ""The Mikado"" to The International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton, England, in 1996,"
"G&S operettas until its production of The Grand Duke in 2006. Since 1978 it has added musicals and classical operas to its repertoire. Several past members have moved onto the professional stage including Barry Clark, Valerie Nunns, Anne Osborne. and Claire Rutter (who is Vice President of the Society). In 1987 a junior section was formed in an effort to introduce younger members to its ranks and this has been a successful development. Now called Debut Youth Theatre it too has been the launch pad for several professional careers, notably Rae Baker, Nyle Wolfe, Laura Carmichael and, Simon Pontin. Since"
"in any of ten G&S patter roles. Clarke plays another resident of his lodging house, an itinerant ""variety"" performer who assists and hinders the patter man's nightmarish rehearsal. The two men have performed the piece many times. The company's adaptation of ""The Sorcerer"" was produced at the 2009 International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival. The opera is updated to the 1970s, and the love potion causes Dr. Daly to fall in love with Alexis, rather than Aline. Clips from the Buxton presentation are included in a 2010 Sky Arts TV series about G&S, narrated by Butteriss, called ""A Motley Pair"". The"
"things along at a terrific lick. The most enjoyable evening for ages. Gilbert and Sullivan expert Ian Bradley comments, ""Opera della Luna has achieved the rare feat of bringing in a new audience for G&S without alienating the old one."" Typical of reactions to the company's many appearances at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton is this ""Manchester Evening News"" review of the company's ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" in 2006: [The] festival proper opened with this inventive and entertaining production by M.E.N. Award-winning Opera della Luna. It's a cleverly pared-down version to suit the mere eight-strong company, plus [its five-person"
"Az obsitos Az obsitos (""The Soldier on Leave"") is an operetta by Emmerich Kálmán. It has been performed under many different names. The first version, in Hungarian, with a libretto by Károly von Bakonyi, premiered at the Vígszínház, Budapest, on 16 March 1910. The second, German version, "" (The good comrade), with a libretto revised by Viktor Léon, premiered at the Bürgertheater, Vienna, on 10 October 1911. The location of the operetta was changed from Hungary to Austria. The main roles were sung by , , Hubert Marischka and . The third, more nationalistic, version, "" (""I Gave Gold for"
"Grosvenor Light Opera Company Grosvenor Light Opera Company (GLOC) is a nonprofit community theatre organization in London, established in 1949 to study and perform the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. The company is the only (non-student) amateur Gilbert and Sullivan group both to rehearse and perform in central London and has been described by Ian Bradley as the ""leading amateur G & S performing group in London"". As well as performing the Savoy operas in central London, the group has produced a number of touring pieces including the London premier of the revived version of Gilbert's Engaged in 1964 ,"
"Queen of Scots"", ""Simon Bolivar"", and ""Harriet, the Woman Called Moses"". ""Three Women"" had its world premiere in January 1999 at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. Apo Hsu conducted the Women's Philharmonic with Amy Johnson singing all three heroines. The opera also has several spoken roles: Cato (a teenage slave), Sue Ellen (Preston's wife), two bounty hunters, the jail keeper, and a police sergeant. Setting: Delaware, Maryland, and the Canadian border in the 1850s Act 1 Escaped slave Harriet is now being sheltered in the house of Thomas Garrett in Delaware. In a dream she hears the slaves who"
"on 7 and 8 August 2004, by the Royal English Opera Company of Rockford, Illinois. When the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership disbanded after the production of ""The Gondoliers"" in 1889, impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte was forced to find new works to present at the Savoy Theatre. This was the first non-Gilbert and Sullivan ""Savoy Opera"", but it was designed to resemble its G&S predecessors, in particular ""The Mikado"", with its exotic oriental setting. ""The Times"" review of 1 July 1891 noted: Carte knew Solomon well, and he had presented Solomon's 1881 comic opera, ""Claude Duval"", on tour in 1882. In"
"Production"" (for performers under 21) and a ""Bus Pass Opera"" production (for performers over 60). A ""Unifest"" competition among university groups is presented simultaneously, as part of the Festival fringe. While the amateur productions compete during weeknights at the Festival, there are weekend professional performances given by companies such as the Carl Rosa Opera Company, Opera della Luna, the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Charles Court Opera, and the Festival's self-produced National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, which has starred such well-known G&S performers as Richard Suart, Simon Butteriss, Bruce Graham, Gillian Knight, Barry Clark, Michael Rayner, Patricia Leonard,"
"action is set during a G&S opera. ""With Words and Music"" (1937) involves a bookie who revives a washed-up troupe of Savoyards by mounting a production of ""The Mikado"". ""Foul Play"" (1978) features an assassination attempt that culminates during a showing of ""The Mikado"". The thwarted assassin falls into the rigging used as a backdrop for ""H.M.S. Pinafore"". Similarly, in Disney's cartoon """" (2004), the finale occurs at the Paris Opéra during a G&S performance. The score features ""With cat-like tread"", ""The Major General's Song"", ""Climbing over rocky mountain"", ""Poor wandering one"", and part of the overture from ""Princess Ida""."
"Gilbert and Sullivan works as operettas. ""Patience"" (1881) was the first opera to appear at the Savoy Theatre, and thus, in a strict sense, the first true ""Savoy Opera"", although the term ""Savoy Opera"" has, for over a century, included the complete set of thirteen operas that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote for Richard D'Oyly Carte: During the years when the Gilbert and Sullivan (“G&S”) operas were being written, Richard D'Oyly Carte produced operas by other composer–librettist teams, either as curtain raisers to the G&S pieces, or to fill the theatre when no G&S piece was available. To their contemporaries, the"
"Victims of Duty Victims of Duty () is a one-act play written in 1953 by French-Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco. An early work, it has not received the notoriety of his other works. The play is in the Theatre of the Absurd style, of which Ionesco was a pioneer. The play was first produced by Jaques Mauclair in February 1953 at the Théâtre du Quartier latin in Paris. The first English performance was produced by Alan Simpson at the Pike Theatre in Dublin, Ireland on October, 1957. Choubert and Madeleine live a normal life together in their petit bourgeois flat in"
"and Kate Jackson are a happy G&S-loving couple until he leaves her for another man (Harry Hamlin). Gilbert and Sullivan, and songs from the operas, have been included in numerous TV series, including ""The Simpsons"" in several episodes, including ""Cape Feare"", ""Deep Space Homer"", and ""Bart's Inner Child""; numerous ""Frasier"" episodes; ""Kavanagh QC"", in the episode ""Briefs Trooping Gaily"", ""Angel"" in the fifth season episode ""Conviction"", where Charles Gunn becomes a good lawyer, and learns a lot of G&S, because it's ""great for elocution""; numerous references in Animaniacs; the episode ""The Cold Open"" (1x02) of ""Studio 60 on the Sunset"
"as background or imagining the lives of historical or fictional G&S performers. Recent examples include Cynthia Morey's novel about an amateur Gilbert and Sullivan company, ""A World That's All Our Own"" (2006); Bernard Lockett's ""Here's a State of Things"" (2007), a historical novel that intertwines the lives of two sets of London characters, a hundred years apart, but both connected with the Gilbert and Sullivan operas; and ""The Last Moriarty"" (2015) by Charles Veley, about an actress from D'Oyly Carte who seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes. ""Secret Words"" by Jonathan Strong uses a local production of ""Utopia, Limited"" as"
"La serva padrona La serva padrona (The Servant Turned Mistress) is an opera buffa by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 – 1736) to a libretto by Gennaro Antonio Federico, after the play by Jacopo Angello Nelli. The opera is only 45 minutes long and was originally performed as an intermezzo between the acts of a larger serious opera. (The same libretto was set by Giovanni Paisiello in 1781.) ""La serva padrona"" was originally an intermezzo to Pergolesi's opera seria, ""Il prigionier superbo"" (The Proud Prisoner). The two were premiered at the Teatro San Bartolomeo on 5 September 1733, the first performance"
"was the first company in the world to attempt this schedule (the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company played all 13 operas consecutively in its 1975 centenary season, but their performance of ""The Grand Duke"" was only a concert staging). In the last two of these weeks, ""Utopia Limited"" and ""The Grand Duke"", Gilbert and Sullivan's last two G&S operas, were given rare New York professional revivals, although the American Savoyards had performed them two decades earlier, and LOOM had premiered them earlier. Both shows played strongly and were given more extended runs the following season. During ""The Festival Year"", student tickets"
"G&S and the performing arts in schools in Britain. On several occasions, the Festival added a week of performances in the United States. The founders believe that the Gilbert and Sullivan works are an important national heritage and legacy, especially as performed in the tradition of the venerable, year-round D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, which performed Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy Operas continuously, year-round, for over a century until 1982. When that company closed in 1982, greatly diminishing the amount of Gilbert and Sullivan produced in Britain, Ian Smith ""had a burning anger"" that the English Arts Council had not subsidised the"
"Los Angeles Opera The Los Angeles Opera is an American opera company in Los Angeles, California. It is the fourth-largest opera company in the United States. The company's home base is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, part of the Los Angeles Music Center. Spanish tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo has been General Director of LA Opera since 2003. To date, he has sung 27 different roles with the company including, most recently, the baritone title role of Puccini's ""Gianni Schicchi"" (September 2015) as well as Giorgio Germont in Verdi's ""La Traviata,"" Athanael in Massenet's Thaïs,"" Francesco Foscari in Verdi's ""I due"
"Chorus, as well as nominations in most categories. In 2002 the Company appointed a new President, Glyn Hepworth, who initiated the company's popular ""Dinner and Operetta Evenings"". The company mounted ""The Gondoliers"" in the spring. In the summer, the company flew to Seattle, Washington, where they were hosted by the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society in three performances of ""Iolanthe"". The ""Seattle Post-Intelligencer""'s review commented that ""the Derby company made clear why it is so well-regarded. It brought its own performers, set, costumes and several staff members, but the company used Seattle G & S' orchestra. ... Derby's lively production"