Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance premiered in New York in 1879 and has been one of the most popular Savoy Operas ever since. Sullivan thought the score infinitely superior to HMS P ...
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Liberally laced with witty words, satirical jibes, painfully pathetic puns, perilous patters of tortuous tongue-twisters, rousing melodies and all manner of comical, convoluted shenanigans and silline ...
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Warmth, colour, breezy humour and charming loveliness ride high in Opera North’s Falstaff, in which the fine, rounded baritone – and even more rounded belly – of main man Henry Waddington give f ...
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Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard premiered with great success in 1888, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee when the nation was being very patriotic and nostalgic for Ye Olde Engl ...
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