An appeal has been launched for people to check their homes for a missing opera score by Gilbert and Sullivan. According to the BBC, musical researcher Colin Jagger has been tracking down their ...
On a recent March evening, men in red capes stomped, women waved imaginary fairy wands and a guy in a suit jumped over a shepherd’s staff in the Chatterton School auditorium in Merrick. They were ...
The Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island will be holding auditions for principal roles for its production of “Iolanthe” on Tuesday, November 14th, from 7:30-10PM. Auditions will be ...
Some would say “Iolanthe” is the greatest operetta from the collaboration of William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. The show combines all the elements that had characterized their successes, said ...
Elaine Crane, who plays Wynn Somme in Valley Light Opera’s “The McAdo,” rehearses at the Academy of Music. Kathy Blaisdell, who plays “Katishaugh” in Valley Light Opera’s “The McAdo,” rehearses at the ...
Ever since late-19th-century audiences roared at the antics and wiles of Nanki-Poo to win the lovely Yum-Yum through conniving, “The Mikado” has been one of the the most loved Gilbert and Sullivan ...
Gilbert and Sullivan wrote operas together. They collaborated for over 25 years and created a total of 14 comic operas. Sullivan's memorable melodies are matched to Gilbert's often tongue-twisting ...
The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Houston opened its two-weekend run of "Ruddigore" last Saturday at University of Houston's Cullen Hall with a first-rate performance, with singers, orchestra and ...
I was a weird child. When my friends had pictures of ’70s heartthrobs like Donny Osmond and David Cassidy on their bedroom walls, I had posters advertising the London-based D’Oyly Carte Opera Company.
For Waldyn Benbenek, it all started with a poster he saw stapled to a south Minneapolis telephone pole in the summer of 1979. It offered an invitation to meet in the basement of a home in Minneapolis' ...
The Broadway musical did not originate on Broadway. It started at London’s Savoy Theatre with the sparkling work of W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan. These theater titans created a special sort of ...