"a desire to try new projects and convinced that it had been depending too much upon “the Big Three,” the Company undertook a complete cycle of the works of Gilbert & Sullivan, beginning with Princess Ida in 1992 and concluding in 2004 with The Mikado. The Project, which has been an overwhelming success, has featured the Long Island premieres of four operas—Princess Ida, The Yeomen of the Guard, Utopia, Limited and The Grand Duke, as well as of the Sullivan/Stephenson operetta The Zoo. In 1995 the Company presented the world premiere of Gayden Wren’s A Gilbert & Sullivan Christmas Carol."
"Gardiner joined the J. C. Williamson Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, appearing with them for the next three seasons, and also in 1935, in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, as the Duchess of Plaza-Toro in ""The Gondoliers"", Ruth in ""The Pirates of Penzance"", Dame Carruthers in ""The Yeomen of the Guard"" and other Gilbert and Sullivan contralto parts. In the meantime, briefly in 1934, she played the Slave of the Lamp in a pantomime production of ""Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp"" in London at the Prince Edward Theatre. She became interested in flying and, while in Australia in 1933,"
"Jury"". Later in his career he played in the first performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Jack Point in ""The Yeomen of the Guard"" when Welsh National Opera included the work in their London season there in 1995. He played several roles in the Savoy operas with the revived D'Oyly Carte Opera Company beginning in 1988, and also in their ""Orpheus in the Underworld"" (1994) and ""La Vie parisienne"" (1995) by Jacques Offenbach. Of his 1998 performances in ""The Pirates of Penzance"" for D'Oyly Carte, ""The Guardian"" wrote, ""Richard Suart, a"
"performing the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. Founded in 1901, and still extant, Savoy's performing membership of dedicated amateurs was formed from Philadelphia society's ""blue bloods"" and Social Register-types. Evans again performed with Savoy on May 13 and 14, 1932 as Jack Point in Gilbert and Sullivan's ""The Yeomen of the Guard,"" also at Philadelphia's Academy of Music. Evans attributed his success in this difficult role to director Pacie Ripple who performed in D'Oyly Carte productions directed by Gilbert and Sullivan themselves. Evans teamed with long-time Savoy member John Steele Williams as Shadbolt for the show's hilarious comic duet which"
"began to play Ko-Ko in ""The Mikado"", Major-General Stanley in ""The Pirates of Penzance"", Sir Joseph Porter in ""H.M.S. Pinafore"", and Jack Point the jester in ""The Yeomen of the Guard"", which became his favourite role. Unlike Grossmith, who gave the opera a comic ending, Lytton's Jack Point, following the example of George Thorne (another D'Oyly Carte touring artist), died of a broken heart at the end. Carte and Gilbert blessed the departure from Grossmith's interpretation. In subsequent years, he portrayed these and the other principal comic Gilbert and Sullivan roles played by the D'Oyly Carte touring companies in which"
"Gilbert and Sullivan operas performed by the company during her tenure (""The Sorcerer"" was not performed by the company until just before she left in 1971). These roles were: Little Buttercup in ""H.M.S. Pinafore"", Ruth in ""The Pirates of Penzance"", Lady Jane in ""Patience"", the Queen of the Fairies in ""Iolanthe"", Lady Blanche in ""Princess Ida"", Katisha in ""The Mikado"", Dame Hannah in ""Ruddigore"", Dame Carruthers in ""The Yeomen of the Guard"", and the Duchess of Plaza-Toro in ""The Gondoliers"". At the same time, she occasionally performed in concerts with Gilbert and Sullivan for All. Palmer married Norman Wilfred Wright"
"Clarence M. Leumane Clarence M. ""Jack"" Leumane (died 23 February 1928) was an English-born singer, actor, songwriter and librettist. He played leading tenor roles in opera, especially the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, in the 1880s, first in Britain and then Australia. He was also a librettist and writer of the song '""The Lambton Worm"" in 1867. Leumane was born in England, possibly in the Sunderland area, as the words of the song ""The Lambton Worm"" are from the Mackem dialect. As an actor, in the autumn of 1881, he created the role of Captain Harleigh in ""Claude Duval"","
"Julian Sturgis, who wrote the libretto for Sullivan. Many of the characters in the play are reminiscent of those in Gilbert's Savoy Operas, including Somers/Boatswain; Ross/Dr. Daly; Ruth/Patience and Elsie; Alaric/Giuseppe; Mabel/Aline; and Thursby/Ludwig. Also, as in some of his earlier plays, including ""Charity"", Gilbert touches on the theme of how a shamed woman is truly the noblest in society. The character Ruth notes, regarding the scoundrel, Crampton, ""your heart was slow to turn; your eyes were closed. To open them it needed that a woman should clothe herself with shame. That has been done; and now, you see!"" And"
"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"
"hit by Gilbert and Sullivan. It was the first work to premiere at the Savoy (although ""Patience"" had transferred to the theatre in 1881) and was the first new theatre production in the world to be illuminated entirely with electric lights, permitting some special effects that had not been possible in the era of gas lighting. The opera opened simultaneously in New York, and touring companies were sent around the UK and US to play the piece. The first Australasian touring production followed in 1885, and the opera was revived in London beginning in 1901. The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company"
"and ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" were nominated for Olivier Awards. From 1988 to 2003, the company mounted productions of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas on tour and in London, and it produced several operettas by Offenbach, Lehár and Strauss. Unlike the original company, which had regularly performed up to a dozen operas each year, 48 weeks a year, the new company generally presented only one or two operas in shorter seasons. In the first season, in 1988, the operas played were ""Iolanthe"" and ""The Yeomen of the Guard"", both starring Gillian Knight. The company made its debut at the Sunderland Empire Theatre"
"was too similar to many of the other tenor ballads in the Savoy Operas, and he urged the composer to rewrite it. Sullivan complied, but also saved the first version, leaving an unusual example of two separate settings of the same lyric. The revised version is invariably used in performance. The Act II duet for Sergeant Meryll and Dame Carruthers, ""Rapture, rapture"", was often cut in 20th-century D'Oyly Carte Opera Company performances, apparently because it was thought to detract from the serious tone of the work. However, D'Oyly Carte eventually restored the duet, and in modern productions it is usually"
"translator, and performer. He himself performed in fifty of the more than two hundred productions mounted by the company while he was director. He also sang on twenty of the company's live operetta recordings, which encompassed works by both Americans and Europeans. James Stuart (opera director) James F. Stuart (23 December 1928, Baton Rouge, Louisiana — 7 March 2005) was an American opera director and operatic tenor. He began his career performing and touring with Dorothy Raedler’s American Savoyards. He became a specialist in the patter roles of Gilbert and Sullivan, including Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. in ""H.M.S. Pinafore"", Ko-Ko"
"operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, including the roles of Plaintiff in ""Trial"" (1975), Nekaya in ""Utopia"" (1976), Julia in ""The Grand Duke"" (1976), Casilda in ""The Gondoliers"" (1977), and Laetitia Grinder in ""The Zoo"" (1978), and excerpts from ""The Gondoliers"" and ""Ruddigore"" in a 1970 recording with the company called ""Songs and Snatches"". Julia Goss Julia Goss (born c. 1946), is a Scottish singer and actress best known for her performances in the principal soprano roles of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. She joined that company in 1967, remaining with them until"
"stage name, the maiden names of her two grandmothers. In December 1970, she joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Her first role, in March 1971, was Lady Sangazure in their newly revived production of ""The Sorcerer"", and she was soon performing major roles in ten of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, adding Little Buttercup in ""H.M.S. Pinafore"", Ruth in ""The Pirates of Penzance"", Lady Jane in ""Patience"", the Queen of the Fairies in ""Iolanthe"", Lady Blanche in ""Princess Ida"", Katisha in ""The Mikado"", Dame Hannah in ""Ruddigore"", Dame Carruthers in ""The Yeomen of the Guard"", and the Duchess of Plaza-Toro"
"of Gilbert and Sullivan. It began performing in church halls and a high school. In 1982, it moved to the Trinity Theatre in Georgetown, Washington. In 1987, it transferred to the Duke Ellington Theatre at the Duke Ellington School for the Arts, also in Georgetown, which served as its home for ten years. By 2003, the company decided to expand its repertoire beyond the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, to produce at least three shows a year, and to find a new theatre. The first non-Gilbert and Sullivan piece produced by the company was Jacques Offenbach's ""La Périchole"", during the"
"Penzance"", and so on. Similarly, Mrs. Partlet in ""The Sorcerer"" transformed into Little Buttercup in ""Pinafore"", then into Ruth, the piratical maid-of-all-work in ""Pirates"". Relatively unknown performers whom Gilbert and Sullivan engaged early in the collaboration would stay with the company for many years, becoming stars of the Victorian stage. These included George Grossmith, the principal comic; Rutland Barrington, the lyric baritone; Richard Temple, the bass-baritone; and Jessie Bond, the mezzo-soprano soubrette. ""The Pirates of Penzance"" (New Year's Eve, 1879) also poked fun at grand opera conventions, sense of duty, family obligation, the ""respectability"" of civilisation and the peerage, and"
"with the Houston Grand Opera and her Metropolitan Opera debut was in 2000 as Waltraute (""Götterdämmerung""). Having made her debut with English National Opera (ENO) in 1975, her performance with the company forty years later, as the Countess in The Queen of Spades, was widely applauded and described as 'mesmerising' and 'astonishing'. Palmer has performed and recorded Gilbert and Sullivan operas, as Katisha in ""The Mikado"" for the ENO and the Welsh National Opera (WNO), Dame Carruthers in ""The Yeomen of the Guard"" (WNO) and Little Buttercup in ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" (WNO). In 1998, she played Widow Begbick in the Lyric"
"the leading lady, Nancy McIntosh, and refused to write another piece featuring her; Gilbert insisted that she must appear in his next opera. Instead, Sullivan teamed up again with his old partner, F. C. Burnand. ""The Chieftain"" (1894), a heavily revised version of their earlier two-act opera, ""The Contrabandista"", flopped. Gilbert and Sullivan reunited one more time, after McIntosh announced her retirement from the stage, for ""The Grand Duke"" (1896). It failed, and Sullivan never worked with Gilbert again, although their operas continued to be revived with success at the Savoy. In May 1897 Sullivan's full-length ballet, ""Victoria and Merrie"
"believe that if Gilbert and Sullivan is done well... then it is excellent, and it should be in a [major opera] house"". She advised audiences, ""Don't close your mind to anything because somebody has said, 'Oh, this is Gilbert and Sullivan,' or, 'This is modern music.' Just keep an open mind and you may be surprised at how much you get out of it"". With the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and Decca Records, she recorded Little Buttercup (1960), the Queen of the Fairies (1960), Lady Jane (1961), the Duchess of Plaza-Toro (1961), Dame Hannah (1962) and Dame Carruthers (1964). She"
"""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"
"Players, Charles Court Opera, and the festival's own National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company. In 1995, the operators of the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival formed an opera company to provide festivalgoers with professional productions of the Savoy operas. The company was soon called the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company. It engaged such performers as Richard Suart, Simon Butteriss, Bruce Graham, Gillian Knight, Barry Clark, Michael Rayner, Jill Pert, Gareth Jones, Patricia Leonard, Donald Maxwell, Oliver White, Rebecca Bottone, Ian Belsey and the Opera Babes. John Owen Edwards, David Russell Hulme, David Steadman or Andrew Nicklin have usually served as"
"Alice Barnett Alice Barnett (17 May 1846 – 14 April 1901) was an English singer and actress, best known for her performances in contralto roles of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Barnett began her career by 1873 in oratorio and other concert work. Using her imposing physical stature to her advantage, she originated several of the early Gilbert and Sullivan ""formidable middle-aged ladies"", namely Ruth in ""The Pirates of Penzance"" (1879), Lady Jane in ""Patience"" (1881) and the Fairy Queen in ""Iolanthe"" (1882). She then performed in various comic operas in Britain, America, Australia"
"the tensions in an amateur theatre group during a production of ""Yeomen"", particularly the casting of the part of Jack Point. ""Perish in July"", a 1989 novel by Mollie Hardwick, part of her Doran Fairweather series, involves a backstage murder of the actress playing Elsie. The Yeomen of the Guard The Yeomen of the Guard; or, The Merryman and His Maid, is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 3 October 1888, and ran for 423 performances. This was the eleventh collaboration of fourteen between Gilbert"
"production of Gilbert and Sullivan's ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" to raise funds to get it unstuck. Much of the musical consists of a play within a play, as the company presents a musically updated version of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera; the boat pilot (played by Bill Robinson in the original production) takes a major role as Sir Joseph Porter, First Lord of the Admiralty. Another actor (Avon Long in the original) sings and dances the role of Captain Corcoran, while the part of Josephine goes to an Andrews Sisters-style trio of women from the company chorus (Sheila Guyse, Ida James, and"
"Haddon Hall (opera) Haddon Hall is an English light opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by Sydney Grundy. The opera, set at the eponymous hall, dramatises the legend of Dorothy Vernon's elopement with John Manners, resetting the tale in the 17th century. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 24 September 1892 for a modestly successful run of 204 performances, closing on 15 April 1893. The piece was popular with amateur theatre groups, particularly in Britain, up to the 1920s, but it has been produced only sporadically since then. The National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company presented"
"intends her to marry Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. She abides by her father's wishes at first, but Sir Joseph's advocacy of the equality of humankind encourages Ralph and Josephine to overturn conventional social order. They declare their love for each other and eventually plan to elope. The captain discovers this plan, but, as in many of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, a surprise disclosure changes things dramatically near the end of the story. Drawing on several of his earlier ""Bab Ballad"" poems, Gilbert imbued this plot with mirth and silliness. The opera's humour focuses on"
"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"
"Courtice Pounds Charles Courtice Pounds (30 May 1861 – 21 December 1927), better known by the stage name Courtice Pounds, was an English singer and actor known for his performances in the tenor roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and his later roles in Shakespeare plays and Edwardian musical comedies. As a young member of D'Oyly Carte, Pounds played tenor leads in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas in New York and on tour in Britain and continental Europe from 1881 to 1887. After being promoted to principal tenor at the Savoy Theatre, he created the"
"Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Victoria (now known as Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria). Amateur groups in Britain produced the piece regularly through the 1920s and occasionally thereafter. A concert of the opera was performed by Valley Light Opera in Amherst, Massachusetts on 8 March 2008 with a narration written by Jonathan Strong. This was the first known U.S. performance of the opera with full orchestra since 1902. For much of the 1890s, impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte and his wife Helen Carte had struggled to find successful shows to fill the Savoy. They finally found a winning formula in ""The"
"and finally recognises him as her adored one. All once again erupt into joy, except the broken-hearted Jack Point. Tearfully, he reprises the song that he had earlier sung with Elsie, ""The Merryman and his Maid"", with wrenching sorrow. Elsie ""drops a tear"" for Point, but turns back to her love. As the chorus turns away to celebrate the marriage of Fairfax and Elsie, Point falls insensible at their feet. Like most of the Savoy Operas, ""Yeomen"" went through significant cuts and alterations during rehearsal, and after the authors' deaths further changes have become traditional. Much of the cut music"
"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"
"season, appearing only as Nanki-Poo in ""The Mikado"". He then continued to perform occasionally, appearing, for example, as Lord Tolloller with the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company in 2001 at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, where he also occasionally gave master classes or participated in coachings and lectures for many years. Potter died in 2016 at the age of 80. With the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and Decca Records, he recorded the Duke of Dunstable (1961), Colonel Fairfax (1964), Hilarion (1964), Nanki-Poo in ""A Gilbert & Sullivan Spectacular"" (1965) (excerpts), and Frederic (1968), as well as ""Songs and Snatches"""