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The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-88849-3. Lister, Linda (2018). So You Want to Sing Light Opera: A Guide for Performers. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-442-26939-2. Williams, Carolyn (2010). Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody. New ...
Other comedians have used Gilbert and Sullivan songs as a key part of their routines, including Hinge and Bracket, [168] Anna Russell, [169] and the HMS Yakko episode of the animated TV series Animaniacs. Songs from Gilbert and Sullivan are often pastiched in advertising, and elaborate advertising parodies have been published, as have the ...
"I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" (often referred to as the "Major-General's Song" or "Modern Major-General's Song") is a patter song from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance. It has been called the most famous Gilbert and Sullivan patter song. [1]
The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations. It opened on 14 March 1885, in London , where it ran at the Savoy Theatre for 672 performances, the second-longest run for any work of musical theatre and one of the ...
Apart from Gilbert and Sullivan tunes set to different words, such as Tom Lehrer's listing of the chemical elements to the tune of the Major General's Song, later patter songs can be found in early twentieth-century operettas, such as Edward German's Merrie England and in a number of musicals.
Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri (/ aɪ. oʊ ˈ l æ n θ i /) is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, first performed in 1882. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh of fourteen operatic collaborations by Gilbert and Sullivan .
The Enduring Phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan (2005, Oxford University Press), p. 190, that the two best internet sites for Gilbert and Sullivan are the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive "and a wonderful G & S Discography compiled by Marc Shepherd, which lists just about every known recording of every G & S opera ever made and receives around 1000 ...
The following is a list of musical works by the English composer Arthur Sullivan, best known for his operatic collaborations with W. S. Gilbert. In all, Sullivan's artistic output included 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight choral works and oratorios, two ballets, one song cycle, incidental music to several plays, numerous hymns and ...