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Iolanthe is one of librettist, W.S Gilbert, and composer, Sir Arthur Sullivan ‘s many comic operas. The Victorian duo were brought together in 1875 by theatre manager, Richard D’Oyly Carte, whose Savoy Theatre was established as a showcase for their works. Gilbert and Sullivan are perhaps best known for their operetta’s The Pirates of ...
Oct 11, 2023 · But there was always the orchestral loveliness to savour; Chris Hopkins likes to move a lot of it along, but gave the musical purple passages their space. This is a poetic as well as a very funny spectacle; don’t miss it if you didn’t go first time round. Iolanthe at ENO until 25 October. More opera reviews on theartsdesk.
May 3, 2023 · IOLANTHE (a Fairy—Strephon’s mother), Shereen Ahmed STREPHON (An Arcadian Shepherd), Schyler Vargas PHYLLIS (an Arcadian Shepherdess and Ward of Chancery), Ashley Fabian GEORGE, THE EARL OF MOUNTARARAT, Santino Fontana THOMAS, THE EARL TOLLOLLER, Jason Danieley PRIVATE WILLIS (of the Grenadier Guards), Phillip Boykin CELIA, Nicole Eve Goldstein
Gilbert and Sullivan Archive. Twenty-five years before the setting of the opera, Iolanthe, a fairy, had committed the capital offence of marrying a mortal. The Queen of the Fairies had commuted the sentence to lifelong exile, on condition that Iolanthe left her husband and never saw him again. Her son, Strephon, has grown up as a shepherd, half ...
Aug 31, 2005 · Dialogue following No. 24. Peers and Sentry enter. The Queen raises her spear. The Fairy Queen (Bertha Lewis) prepares to execute Iolanthe (Catherine Ferguson) as the Lord Chancellor (Henry Lytton) trie to protect her. 1920s. Leila. Hold! If Iolanthe must die, so must we all; for, as she has sinned, so have we! Queen.
Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri opened on November 25, 1882, at the Savoy Theatre in London. It was the first Gilbert and Sullivan opera to actually open at D'Oyly Carte's new theatre, although ...
