Does Gilbert and Sullivan need updating for our changed times? Cal McCrystal explains why his joyful new Iolanthe contains not a single lecherous peer but plenty of feisty fairies I’ve never been a ...

I grew up on "The Mikado," and in the past year or two I've begun to slowly educate myself on Gilbert and Sullivan via Lamplighters Music Theatre, which does one or two full staged Gilbert and ...

Cal McCrystal’s joyous Gilbert and Sullivan staging returns to English National Opera packed with pantomime animals, visual and verbal gags and, above all, terrific singing Cal McCrystal’s joyous ...

Iolanthe (1882), the seventh collaboration by masters of comic operetta W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, uses the story of the eponymous fairy’s banishment from heaven for marrying a mortal to ...

THE BASICS: IOLANTHE, OR THE PEER AND THE PERI, a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, directed by Lisa Berglund. 11/16-23 with one remaining performance at 2:00 this Sunday 11/23. Presented by Opera-Lytes at ...

In their decades-long history, the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players have brought their audiences to all the corners of the United Kingdom and across half of the globe. This time is no ...

Iolanthe is a role in Iolanthe, a opera that opened Broadway in 1927. Strephon, an Arcadian shepherd, wants to marry Phyllis, a ward of the Court of Chancery. Phyllis does not know that Strephon is ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest West End of London news every morning. There is, inevitably, a great deal of camp in such a staging, but these productions preserve the ...

Summon, if you will, the Lord High Executioner. Prepare ye, oh guardians of the sacred flame of Gilbert & Sullivan, to huff and puff in high-whiskered indignation. It has to be said: watching Iolanthe ...

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