Gilbert and Sullivan

  • Gilbert and Sullivan: A Dual Biography
    By Michael Ainger

    2 Sullivan, Franklin Taylor, Walter Bache, and Carl Rosa frequently met at the house of Barnett's aunt, Mrs. John Barnett (the wife of the composer), and every Sunday she kept open house for them, feeding them as well as providing an ...

  • Gilbert and Sullivan: A Dual Biography
    By Michael Ainger

    Pearson, Hesketh. Gilbert and Sullivan. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1950. ______ Gilbert, His Life and Strife. London: Methuen, 1957. Rees, Terence. Thespis, A Gilbert and Sullivan Enigma. London: Dillon's, 1964. Ridley, Jasper.

  • Gilbert And Sullivan
    By Charles Hayter

    At the beginning, the relationship may be depicted schematically: Ko-Ko Katisha loves W loves Yum-Yum-e loves > Nanki-POO From the outset, it is clear that this is a wrong ordering. For one thing, neither the love of Ko-Ko for Yum-Yum ...

  • Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody
    By Carolyn Williams

    ... Shakespeare: Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 72. Davis, Actresses as Working Women, pp. 105–36. Donald Roy, introduction to Plays by James Robinson Planché, ed.

  • Gilbert and Sullivan: A Dual Biography
    By Michael Ainger

    He was in Leeds on Saturday, September, for a choral rehearsal and then was back in London on the Sunday, rehearsing Geraldine Ulmar, Courtice Pounds, Jessie Bond, and Rutland Barrington, the four singers in the complicated number ...

  • Gilbert and Sullivan
    By Michael Ffinch

    Introduces the Victorian operetta, looks at the lives and careers of the writer-composer team, and gives an overview of the creation, plot, and production of their operettas

  • Gilbert and Sullivan: The Players and the Plays
    By Kurt Gänzl

    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, ...

  • Gilbert and Sullivan: Class and the Savoy Tradition, 1875-1896
    By Regina B. Oost

    Making extensive use of archival resources, Regina B. Oost examines advertisements, promotional materials, and programs; letters, diaries, and account books; and the operas themselves to reconstruct the ways in which Gilbert and Sullivan ...

  • Gilbert And Sullivan: A Biography
    By Hesketh Pearson

    Hesketh Pearson’s biography is of the two men who had individual, quite different, personalities – and their equally famous quarrel. Pearson describes their lives rather than criticise their works.

  • Gilbert and Sullivan: Class and the Savoy Tradition, 1875-1896
    By Regina B. Oost

    11¥60. Crowther, Andrew. Contradiction Contradicted: The Plays of W.S. Gilbert. London: Associated UP, 2000. Davis, Jim, and Victor Emeljanow. Reflecting the Audience: London Theatregoing, 1840–1880. Iowa City, Iowa: U of Iowa P, 2001.

  • Gilbert and Sullivan: A Biography
    By Hesketh Pearson

    The operas of William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan are an institution. Hesketh Pearson's biography is of the two men who had individual, quite different, personalities - and their equally famous quarrel.

  • Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody
    By Carolyn Williams

    An examination of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and how parody was used in the culture wars of late-nineteenth-century England.

  • Gilbert and Sullivan
    By Hesketh Pearson

    Gilbert and Sullivan

  • Gilbert and Sullivan
    By Alan James

    Piano/vocal format. In the world of music, whenever perfect welding of lyrics and music if discussed and commented upon, highest praise is unfailingly given to the works of W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.

  • Gilbert and Sullivan: Interviews and Recollections
    By Harold Orel

    ... piano playing ( 1873–97 ) , wrote several tutorial books for the piano , directed the Philharmonic Society ( 1891–3 ) ... easy charm of manner , and adaptability to all sorts and conditions of persons and circumstances , as when he became ...