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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Ever since its first performances in 1878, Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta has been hugely popular on both sides of the Atlantic with theatregoers enjoying the gentle debunking of the Queen̵ ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Opera North’s Kiss Me Kate at London Coliseum Shakespeare’s plays have inspired operas by Verdi, Bellini, Gounod, Berlioz and Britten and inspired Broadway musicals, most notabl ...
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