Author : Gayden Wren
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195301724
Most books written on Gilbert and Sullivan have focused on the authors rather than on their work. Examining all 14 operas in detail, this book offers a fresh look at the works themselves.
Author : Arthur Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 35,5 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780198167105
The comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan are a performing arts phenomenon. Wildly popular when first produced, they are if anything even more popular today. The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan provides the complete text of all thirteen of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas still being performed today, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado. Each work is thoroughly annotated, with the text, including stage directions, given on the right-hand page, and the notes on the left. The annotations provide a wealth of information--everything from the identity of real-life people mentioned in the opera, to clear explanations of obscure words and phrases (such as legal terms) and other literary references, to comments from first-night critics, and much more. In addition, Bradley has written a marvelously informative introduction to the book as well as superb introductions to each piece, describing the genesis of the work, its performance history, and other fascinating tidbits. A goldmine of information, The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan will delight the hearts of Savoyards everywhere.
Author : W. S. Gilbert
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 1137 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368304569
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Kurt Gänzl
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1438485476
In this, the first book to focus on the original cast members of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas, world-renowned musical theater expert Kurt Gänzl provides a concise history of the writing and production of each opera, vividly colored by the often little-known life stories of these early performers. Meticulously researched and lavishly illustrated with rare photographs, Gilbert and Sullivan: The Players and the Plays delves into the professional and personal lives of the British and American actors and singers who created the celebrated "famous fourteen" Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
Author : Carolyn Williams
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231148054
An examination of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and how parody was used in the culture wars of late-nineteenth-century England.
Author : David Eden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521888492
An international team of contributors, including film director Mike Leigh, presents fresh insights into the work of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Author : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher : HMH
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2009-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0547350619
This colorful history of a powerful family brings the world they lived in—the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance—to life. The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and fame—Lucrezia Borgia, his daughter, whose husband was famously murdered by her brother, and that brother, Cesare, who inspired Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince. Notorious for seizing power, wealth, land, and titles through bribery, marriage, and murder, the dynasty’s dramatic rise from its Spanish roots to its occupation of the highest position in Renaissance society forms a gripping tale. From the author of The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici and other acclaimed works, The Borgias and Their Enemies is “a fascinating read” (Library Journal).
Author : Arthur Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Operas
ISBN :
Author : Jonah Winter
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9780439930505
Welcome to Topsy-Turvydom, a magicalkingdom (well, more like an opera stage)full of pirates, policemen, fairies, and fakemustaches! Mr. Gilbert and Mr. Sullivanhave ruled this kingdom together in peace,but one day, Mr. Sullivan decides he'shad enough. Every opera they write is thesame silly old story, and he's ready forsomething different. Something serious!Mr. Gilbert is stunned. He's lost hisbusiness partner and his best friend, andhe needs a brilliant idea in order to gethim back. When Mr. Gilbert comes acrossa Japanese street fair, inspiration strikes,and The Mikado is born! Gilbert andSullivan reunite for their greatest workyet, showing that good things can comefrom an argument between friends.
Author : Andrew Crowther
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0752463853
The author of The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, H.M.S. Pinafore and the other great Savoy libretti, W.S. Gilbert was witty, caustic and disrespectful, one of the celebrities of the late Victorian era. He wrote the most brilliantly inventive plays of his time, and with Arthur Sullivan he wrote comic operas that defined the age. He became richer and more famous than he could have imagined, but at the price of his artistic freedom. In his time Gilbert had been many things: journalist, theatre critic, cartoonist, comic poet, stage director, writer of short stories, dramatist. Andrew Crowther examines W.S. Gilbert from all these angles, using a wealth of sources to tell the story of an angry and quarrelsome man, discontented with himself and the age he lived in, raging at life's absurdities and laughing at them. In this book Gilbert's glorious, contradictory character is explored and brought vividly to life.
