"ancestor and the device of the ghostly ancestors stepping out of their portraits. When ""Ruddigore"" closed, no new opera was ready. Gilbert again proposed a version of the ""lozenge"" plot for their next opera, and Sullivan reiterated his reluctance to set it. While the two men worked out their artistic differences, and Sullivan finished other obligations, Carte produced revivals of such old favourites as ""H.M.S. Pinafore"", ""The Pirates of Penzance"", and ""The Mikado"". ""The Yeomen of the Guard"" (1888), their only joint work with a serious ending, concerns a pair of strolling players—a jester and a singing girl—who are caught"
"to Act"", with words by Barrington and music by Wilfred Bendall, at the Japanese Village in Knightsbridge. Frustrated by his position as understudy to an actor who had hardly ever taken ill in four years, Lewis resigned from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in January 1887. On 29 January 1887, one week after the opening of the new opera, ""Ruddigore"", Grossmith did fall ill, and Henry Lytton, a young actor who was in the right place at the right time, took Grossmith's role of Robin Oakapple until 18 February. Lytton went on to perform with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company"
"Robert the Devil (Gilbert) Robert the Devil, or The Nun, the Dun, and the Son of a Gun is an operatic parody by W. S. Gilbert of Giacomo Meyerbeer's grand opera ""Robert le diable"", which was named after, but bears little resemblance to, the medieval French legend of the same name. Gilbert set new lyrics to tunes by Meyerbeer, Bellini, Offenbach and others. The piece premiered at the opening of the newly rebuilt Gaiety Theatre in London on 21 December 1868. An extravaganza played on a very large scale, it ran for over 120 performances and played continuously in the"
"Telephone"", Flotow's ""Martha"" and ""Hansel and Gretel"". Her roles in Offenbach's operas, with the Sadler's Wells company, included Eurydice in ""Orpheus in the Underworld"" and Gabrielle in ""La Vie parisienne"". In 1961 and 1962, she appeared as Maria von Trapp in ""The Sound of Music"" on the Australian stage. In 1964 she appeared as Elizabeth in the musical ""Robert and Elizabeth"" at the Lyric Theatre, London alongside Keith Michell as Robert Browning, a show she took to Australia in 1966. She also appeared in England in tours of two Ivor Novello musicals, ""Glamorous Night"" and ""The Dancing Years"", the latter"
"with Rutland Barrington's short play, ""Quid Pro Quo"". In 1868, Hollingshead took over the Gaiety Theatre, which had been a large music hall. The auditorium was rebuilt and, under Hollingshead, it became a venue primarily for musical burlesque, variety, continental operetta, including several operettas by Jacques Offenbach, and light comedy, under Hollingshead's management, from 1868 to 1886. The theatre opened on 21 December 1868, with the successful ""Robert the Devil"", by W. S. Gilbert, a burlesque of the opera ""Robert le Diable"". Gilbert also wrote ""An Old Score"" for the theatre in 1869. Another early production was Alfred Thompson's ""Columbus!,"
"Howard as Lucrezia. The musical then toured for two seasons and was given an Australian production in 1924 and a London West End production, opening on February 17, 1926 and running for 114 performances, starring Kitty Reidy as Nina, with Peter Gawthorne as Alberto and Mark Daley as Gabrielle. It's London run was hampered by the [1926 United Kingdom general strike|1926 national strike] in Britain. ""Wildflower"" was Oscar Hammerstein’s first successful musical and Vincent Youmans' second show. It ran over a year because of its ""simple-minded story"". ""The New York Times"" opening night review stated erroneously that the show ""contains"
"Anne & Gilbert Anne & Gilbert is a musical based on the ""Anne of Green Gables"" series of books by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The show was based on the books ""Anne of Avonlea"" and ""Anne of the Island"", and adapted by Jeff Hochhauser, Nancy White, and Bob Johnston. The show closely follows that of the books on which it was based, with just a handful of alterations and a number of cuts for length. The first act is entirely based on ""Anne of Avonlea"", while the second act is based on ""Anne of the Island"". During the course of the"
"Sullivan and Gilbert Sullivan and Gilbert is a jukebox musical by Ken Ludwig with music and lyrics by Gilbert and Sullivan. ""Sullivan and Gilbert"" features over 15 Gilbert and Sullivan songs. It examines a fictional day in 1890 when the Victorian era composer and dramatist, while embroiled in their 1890 ""carpet quarrel"", are requested by Queen Victoria to present a revue of songs from their operas on short notice. The musical premiered in 1983 in Milford, New Hampshire, and it has been revived several times in various places in North America. ""Sullivan and Gilbert"" premiered in 1983 in Milford, New"
"Gaiety in 1870 included ""Dot"" (Dion Boucicault's version of ""The Cricket on the Hearth""); and ""The Princess of Trebizonde"", based on the Jacques Offenbach operetta (1870). ""Thespis"", the first collaboration between Gilbert and Sullivan, played at the theatre in 1871, with Farren as Mercury and J. L. Toole in the title role. Offenbach's ""Les deux aveugles"" played in 1872, starring Fred Sullivan. This was followed by such works as ""Shilly-Shally"" (1872) by Anthony Trollope and Charles Reade; ""Antony and Cleopatra"" (1873); and ""The Battle of Life"", (based on Charles Dickens's Christmas story of that title). Two other Dion Boucicault plays"
"and went to Texas to be part of an aviation unit. There he contracted meningitis and died in 1918. Richard Mansfield Richard Mansfield (24 May 1857 – 30 August 1907) was an English actor-manager best known for his performances in Shakespeare plays, Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and the play ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"". Mansfield was born in Berlin and spent his early childhood on Heligoland, Germany, an island in the North Sea, then under British rule. His parents were Erminia Rudersdorff (1822–1882), a Russian-born operatic soprano, and Maurice Mansfield (died 1861), a British London-based wine merchant. His grandfather was"
"and sixths; Offenbach has a Venetian admiral telling of his cowardice in battle; Gilbert and Sullivan have their Duke of Plaza-Toro who led his regiment from behind."" Offenbach's ""Les Géorgiennes"" (1864), like Gilbert and Sullivan's ""Princess Ida"" (1884), depicts a female stronghold challenged by males in disguise. The best-known instance in which a Savoy opera draws on Offenbach's work is ""The Pirates of Penzance"" (1879), where both Gilbert and Sullivan follow the lead of ""Les brigands"" (1869) in their treatment of the police, plodding along ineffectually in heavy march-time. ""Les brigands"" was presented in London in 1871, 1873 and 1875;"
"made other minor changes in the score. The ""Matter Patter"" trio from ""Ruddigore"" and ""Sorry her lot"" from ""H.M.S. Pinafore"", two other Gilbert and Sullivan operas, were interpolated into the show. The production also restored Gilbert and Sullivan's original New York ending, with a reprise of the Major-General's song in the Act II finale. Linda Ronstadt starred as Mabel, Rex Smith as Frederic, Kevin Kline as the Pirate King, Patricia Routledge as Ruth (replaced by Estelle Parsons for the Broadway transfer), George Rose as the Major-General, and Tony Azito as the Sergeant of Police. Kline won a Tony Award for"
"Briercliffe participated in all seven D'Oyly Carte recordings made for HMV between 1929 and 1932, as Phoebe, Edith, Iolanthe, Hebe, Angela, Margaret and Melissa. Nellie Briercliffe Nellie Briercliffe (24 April 1889 – 12 December 1966) was an English singer and actress best known for her performances in the mezzo-soprano roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. After playing in the provinces early in her career, Briercliffe joined the D'Oyly Carte, touring for over three years in the Gilbert and Sullivan soubrette roles. She left the company to play in London's the West End, but rejoined D'Oyly"
"and abridged novelisations of the Hetty Wainthropp series. In 1966, she sang the role of Mad Margaret in ""Ruddigore"", the title role in ""Iolanthe"", and Melissa in ""Princess Ida"", in a series of BBC Radio Gilbert and Sullivan recordings. She took part in a studio broadcast of Tchaikovsky's opera ""Vakula the Smith"" (narrating excerpts from the work by Gogol) in 1989. In 2006, she was featured in a programme of the ""Stage and Screen"" series on Radio 3. Routledge is an ambassador for age-positive charity Royal Voluntary Service, previously known as WRVS. Routledge has never married, has no children, and"
"Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration and introduced the much-parodied ""Major-General's Song"". The opera was performed for over a century by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Britain and by many other opera companies and repertory companies worldwide. Modernized productions include Joseph Papp's 1981 Broadway production, which ran for 787 performances, winning the Tony Award for Best Revival and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, and spawning many imitations and a 1983 film adaptation. ""Pirates"" remains popular today, taking its place along with ""The Mikado"" and ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" as one of the most frequently played Gilbert and Sullivan operas. ""The Pirates"
"the title role, Jerome Uhl as the King of Egypt, John Sample as Radames, and Marta Wittkowska as Amneris. Other operas that season included ""Rigoletto"" with Millo Picco in the title role and Josephine Lucchese as Gilda, Charles Gounod's ""Faust"" with Charles Hart in the title role and Irene Williams as Marguerite, Ruggero Leoncavallo's ""Pagliacci"" with Robert Steel as Tonio and Euphemia Giannini Gregory as Nedda, ""Otello"" with Sample in the title role and Chief Caupolican as Iago, and ""Carmen"" with Wittkowska in the title role and Armand Tokatyan as Don José. During the company's first three seasons the company"
"Glynne as William McDougall, and Remo Marinucci as Baptiste Lépine. The libretto depicts the post-Confederation political events bounded by the Indian and Métis uprisings of 1869–70 (Red River Rebellion) and 1884–5 (North-West Rebellion) and the personal tragedy of the leader of the uprisings, the Manitoba schoolteacher and Métis hero Louis Riel. After the premiere, Kenneth Winters described the opera in the ""Toronto Telegram"" (25 September 1967) as a 'pastiche ... big, efficient, exciting, heterogeneous ... It had no ring of eternity but it was a vigorous harnessing of current and choice; a brash, smart, cool hand on the pulse of"
"to England to rehearse the new opera, ""Ruddigore"". He gave two matinee performances as Robin Oakapple at the Savoy Theatre and then traveled to New York again to play Robin there with substantially the same troupe that had played in ""The Mikado"" in New York in 1885-86. From 1887 to 1890 (with a break in late 1889 to early 1890, when he contracted typhoid fever), he toured playing Bunthorne, Ko-Ko, Sir Joseph, and later the Major General and Jack Point in ""The Yeomen of the Guard"". Thorne originated the tragic ending for that character, which was later adopted by most"
"the cast, singling out Adrienne Augarde as ""a bright and mischievous Madcap"", but commented that the main attraction for audiences was G. P. Huntley, for his comic performance in various disguises. The lyric of the song ""I like you in velvet"" was used by Malcolm McLaren in his song (on the same title) on his album ""Waltz Darling"". Lady Madcap Lady Madcap is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts, composed by Paul Rubens with a book by Paul Rubens and Nathaniel Newnham-Davis, and lyrics by Paul Rubens and Percy Greenbank. The story concerns a mischievous Earl's daughter who holds"
"opera satirizes feminism, women's education and Darwinian evolution, all of which were controversial topics in conservative Victorian England. In the 15 years between the time that Gilbert wrote ""The Princess"" and the premiere of ""Princess Ida"", the movement for women's education had gained momentum in Britain, with the founding of Girton College (1869) and Newnham College (1871) at the University of Cambridge; and Somerville (1878) and Lady Margaret Hall (1878) at the University of Oxford. Westfield College in Hampstead, the University of London's first women's college, opened in 1882. As in ""Patience"" and ""Iolanthe"", the two previous Gilbert and Sullivan"
"casts, until the death of Prince Albert in December 1861. There were no further command performances until they recommenced on 4 October 1881 with a production of Burnand's ""The Colonel"". Queen Victoria called for a command performance of W. S. Gilbert's play ""Sweethearts"" (together with ""Uncle's Will"") on 1 February 1887, starring Mr and Mrs Kendal. The great Shakespearean actors Henry Irving and Ellen Terry performed for the Queen in 1889 and 1893. In 1891, the Queen enjoyed two performances by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company of Gilbert and Sullivan operas, namely ""The Gondoliers"" on 6 March 1891 at Windsor"
"performance was conducted by Arthur Sullivan. Subsequent performances were conducted by Meyer Lutz, the theatre's musical director. In addition to playing Tipseion, the theatre's stage manager, Robert Soutar, stage managed the piece. The Ballet Master was W. H. Payne Impresario and author John Hollingshead, the lessee of London's Gaiety Theatre since 1868, had produced a number of successful musical burlesques and operettas there. Indeed, Hollingshead ""boasted that he kept alight 'the sacred lamp of burlesque.'"" Gilbert and Sullivan were each well acquainted with the Gaiety and its house artistes. Gilbert's ""Robert the Devil"" (a burlesque of the opera ""Robert le"
"at the beginning of the last scene, before ""Pity me, Robert, now you know"". Robert the Devil (Gilbert) Robert the Devil, or The Nun, the Dun, and the Son of a Gun is an operatic parody by W. S. Gilbert of Giacomo Meyerbeer's grand opera ""Robert le diable"", which was named after, but bears little resemblance to, the medieval French legend of the same name. Gilbert set new lyrics to tunes by Meyerbeer, Bellini, Offenbach and others. The piece premiered at the opening of the newly rebuilt Gaiety Theatre in London on 21 December 1868. An extravaganza played on a"
"Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done is a 1975 British animated film musical, based on the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. 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 operas in the Gilbert and Sullivan canon, particularly ""Trial by Jury"", ""The Sorcerer"", ""H.M.S. Pinafore"", ""The Pirates of Penzance"", ""Patience"", ""Iolanthe"" and ""The Mikado"", in which the principal character, Able Seaman Dick Deadeye, is sent by Queen Victoria on a quest to recover the ""Ultimate Secret"" from the"
"his work. He would depart even further from the burlesque style from about 1869 with plays containing original plots and fewer puns. The most successful of Gilbert's opera parodies, ""Robert the Devil"", opened in December 1868. These 1860s pieces led to Gilbert's more mature ""fairy comedies"", such as ""The Palace of Truth"" (1870) and ""Pygmalion and Galatea"" (1871), and to his German Reed Entertainments, which in turn led to the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas. The original Liverpool and London casts were as follows: Lord Margate and his five companions are discovered at luncheon. They compliment themselves on their rudeness"
"to manage, and their producer, Richard D'Oyly Carte, micromanaging everything, the two men have much to argue about. But their admiration for each other as collaborators and friends triumphs. Sullivan and Gilbert Sullivan and Gilbert is a jukebox musical by Ken Ludwig with music and lyrics by Gilbert and Sullivan. ""Sullivan and Gilbert"" features over 15 Gilbert and Sullivan songs. It examines a fictional day in 1890 when the Victorian era composer and dramatist, while embroiled in their 1890 ""carpet quarrel"", are requested by Queen Victoria to present a revue of songs from their operas on short notice. The musical"
"""Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack"", a burlesque of Gaetano Donizetti's ""L'elisir d'amore"", proved extremely popular. This led to a long series of further Gilbert opera burlesques, pantomimes and farces, full of awful puns (traditional in burlesques of the period), though showing, at times, signs of the satire that would later be a defining part of Gilbert's work. For instance: This was followed by Gilbert's penultimate operatic parody, ""Robert the Devil"", a burlesque of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera, ""Robert le diable"", which was part of a triple bill that opened the Gaiety Theatre, London, in 1868. The piece"
"in Gilbert's career, between 1866 and 1869. The first was ""Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack"", a musical spoof of Donizetti's ""L'elisir d'amore"" (1866). Next was ""La Vivandière; or, True to the Corps!"", a parody of Donizetti's ""La fille du régiment"" (1867). After ""The Merry Zingara"" came ""Robert the Devil"" (1868), parodying Meyerbeer's romantic opera ""Robert le diable"", and ""The Pretty Druidess; or, the Mother, the Maid, and the Mistletoe Bough"" (1869), a burlesque of Bellini's ""Norma"". ""The Merry Zingara"" premiered as the centrepiece in a triple bill. It was preceded by a ""domestic melodrama"", entitled ""Daddy"
"by Retrospect Opera in 2016, together with George Grossmith's ""Cups and Saucers"". From 1891-93, after Gilbert and Sullivan had temporarily separated, Richard D'Oyly Carte mounted a number of non-G&S pieces to keep the Savoy Theatre open, including a revival of ""The Vicar of Bray"" in 1892. Solomon's most famous work produced by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company was probably ""The Nautch Girl or, The Rajah of Chutneypore"" (1891), an ""Indian comic opera"" in two acts with a libretto by George Dance, and lyrics by Dance and Frank Desprez. It initially ran for 200 performances at the Savoy Theatre and then"
"27 February 1982. After the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company closed, Sandford continued his association with Gilbert and Sullivan. He acted as managing director of a touring concert group, ""The Magic of D'Oyly Carte"" (later called ""The magic of Gilbert & Sullivan"") and along with his friend and former D'Oyly Carte colleague Roberta Morrell, he appeared in and co-directed several Savoy Operas at Gawsworth Hall, Cheshire. Sandford toured North America several times with Geoffrey Shovelton, John Ayldon, Lorraine Daniels and others in a series of Gilbert and Sullivan concerts entitled ""The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan"", and in other concerts and"
"a Gilbert and Sullivan opera, such as in the film ""The Girl Said No"". There are also a number of Gilbert and Sullivan biographical films, such as Mike Leigh's ""Topsy-Turvy"" (2000) and ""The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan"" (1953), as well as shows about the partnership, including a 1938 Broadway show, ""Knights of Song"" and a 1975 West End show called ""Tarantara! Tarantara!"" It is not surprising, given the focus of Gilbert on politics, that politicians and political observers have often found inspiration in these works. Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist added gold stripes to his judicial"
"Savoy opera Savoy opera was a style of comic opera that developed in Victorian England in the late 19th century, with W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan as the original and most successful practitioners. The name is derived from the Savoy Theatre, which impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte built to house the Gilbert and Sullivan pieces, and later, those by other composer–librettist teams. The great bulk of the non-G&S Savoy Operas either failed to achieve a foothold in the standard repertory, or have faded over the years, leaving the term ""Savoy Opera"" as practically synonymous with Gilbert and Sullivan. The Savoy"
"killed off in an effort to bankrupt the production company. Ruddigore Ruddigore; or, The Witch's Curse, originally called Ruddygore, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy Operas and the tenth of fourteen comic operas written together by Gilbert and Sullivan. It was first performed by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy Theatre in London on 22 January 1887. The first night was not altogether a success, as critics and the audience felt that ""Ruddygore"" (as it was originally spelled) did not"