THE SAVOY SINGERS, based in Camberley, Surrey, are a leading and long-established amateur operatic society which prides itself on the excellence and professionalism of its productions. From Gilbert & Sullivan operas through operetta to the modern musical, the Savoy Singers performing at the Camberley Theatre, combine musical quality with innovative production.
This NODA award-winning society presents musical theatre at its very best.
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2012 The Sorcerer - This is gallery number = 970 |
OUR NEXT SHOW 7th - 10th March 2012 View category 970 |
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2011 Rodgers & Hammerstein Revue - This is gallery number = 971 |
| This brand new revue followed the lives of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II through some of their most memorable songs.
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2011 The Pirates of Penzance - This is gallery number = 904 |
In this, one of the favourite of all the Gilbert & Sullivan operas, we will find a band of swash-buckling pirates, Major Stanley’s beautiful daughters and, of course, members of the Cornish Constabulary. The list of well-known songs includes: "I am a Pirate King", "Poor wand’ring one!", "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" and "A Policeman’s lot is not a happy one". View category 904 |
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2010 Chess - This is gallery number = 967 |
| This highly-acclaimed musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson develops the ancient and distinguished game of chess into a metaphor for romantic rivalries and East-West political intrigue during the Cold War. The story revolves around a romantic triangle between two players, one Russian, the other American, in a world chess championship. From the Tyrol to Thailand, the players, lovers, politicians, CIA and KGB make their moves to the pulse of a monumental musical score which includes "One Night in Bangkok" and "I Know Him So Well".
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2010 The Zoo - This is gallery number = 905 |
With words by Bolton Rowe and music by Arthur Sullivan, this one act musical folly opened in 1875, but shortly afterwards the score was lost. This charming work was not revived until 1971 and is now often performed in conjunction with one the shorter operas View category 905 |
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2010 HMS Pinafore - This is gallery number = 906 |
Among the most popular Gilbert & Sullivan operas, this was their first blockbuster hit, perhaps because of its infectious tunes including “I'm called Little Buttercup”, I'm the monarch of the sea”, “When I was a lad” and “Fair moon, to thee I sing”. The opera's gentle satire on the Royal Navy builds upon the theme of love between members of different social classes.
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2009 Die Fledermaus - This is gallery number = 909 |
This is Johann Strauss the younger's most celebrated and popular operetta - intoxicatingly melodious and exuberant. Mistaken identities, flirtations at a masked ball, elegant frivolities and confusions of all kinds provide a hilarious vehicle for some of the most captivating music ever written, including "Champagne", "The Laughing Song" and "Brother Mine". View category 909 |
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2009 The Mikado - This is gallery number = 908 |
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its first production, the Savoy Singers presented one of the most popular Gilbert & Sullivan opera. Set in Japan, it tells the story of Nanki Poo, the son of the Mikado, who falls in love with Yum-Yum, the ward of Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor who has been condemned to death for flirting but has now been appointed as Lord High Executioner. Difficulties ensue when the elderly Katisha – to whom Nanki-Poo had been betrothed – appears and claims her husband. However, following the visit of the Mikado, everything is resolved – most satisfactorily. View category 908 |
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2008 White Horse Inn - This is gallery number = 911 |
Set in the beautiful Salzkammergut region of Austria, we discover that head waiters of the White Horse Inn have found that to fall in love with Josepha, the attractive young widow who owns the establishment, is a swift and certain route to dismissal. One of the great comedy operettas, with a multitude of famous songs by Ralph Benatsky and Robert Stolz, this show includes: "It would be wonderful", "Happy Cows", "Your Eyes" and "Good-bye!".
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2008 Iolanthe - This is gallery number = 910 |
| Strephon, an Arcadian shepherd - who is half fairy - wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. Her guardian is the Lord Chancellor who is in fact Strephon's father. When she sees Strephon kissing a seemingly young woman, Phyllis assumes the worst. But her "rival" turns out to be none other than Strephon's own mother, Iolanthe. It takes the Queen of the Fairies, plus the subtleties of the Chancellor’s legal mind, to bring about the reform of the House of Lords before all can be happily resolved. Iolanthe was written when Gilbert & Sullivan were at the peak of their careers, and includes the famous entrance of the Peers.
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2007 Call Me Madam - This is gallery number = 912 |
One of the greatest musical comedies of all time, our audience left the theatre singing Irving Berlin’s well known popular tunes including "You’re Just in Love", "It’s a Lovely Day Today", and "Marrying for Love". Sally Adams is the “the hostess with the mostes’” who becomes US ambassador to the tiny duchy of Lichtenburg, captivating the handsome prime minister, and encouraging the romance of her aide with an enchanting princess. Although the ‘stuffed shirts’ in Washington conspire to get her recalled, all ends happily ever after.
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2007 Ruddigore - This is gallery number = 913 |
In Gilbert & Sullivan’s melodramatic “supernatural opera”, we meet the villain who carries off a maiden; the priggishly good-mannered, poor-but- virtuous heroine; the hero in disguise and his faithful retainer who dream of their former glory days; the nautical snake-in-the-grass who claims to be following his heart; the wild, mad girl; the swagger of fire-eating patriotism; and, in one of the most famous scenes in the Gilbert & Sullivan canon, the ancestors’ ghosts who come to life to enforce an ancient curse. Ruddigore includes many well-known numbers including "When the night wind howls", "Happily coupled are we", Welcome, gentry", and arguably the most beautiful duet written by Gilbert & Sullivan: "There grew a little flower".
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2006 Of Thee I Sing - This is gallery number = 914 |
This light hearted musical is set amidst the fervour of an American presidential election. George Gershwin’s music never fails to delight with its jazzy overtones, and you can even spot the snippet of "An American in Paris" which seems to creep into all Gershwin’s musicals. Then there is the election to be fought and the love story that emerges, not to mention the French connection! And that's before of we talk about corn muffins!
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2006 Patience - This is gallery number = 915 |
The ever-popular Patience contains some of Gilbert & Sullivan’s most delightful numbers, including: "Twenty love-sick maidens we", "The soldiers of the Queen", "When I first put this uniform on", and "A magnet hung in a hardware shop". Whilst Patience, a dairy-made, has never loved anyone (except her aunt), the officers of the Dragoon Guards now have to compete with a bunch of æsthetics for their twenty love-sick maidens who would rather buy tickets to win a raffle to become Bunthorne’s bride.
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2005 Anything Goes - This is gallery number = 916 |
Set in the decadent surroundings of a luxury transatlantic cruise liner, Anything Goes comes straight from the golden age of American musical comedy. This hit show opened on Broadway in 1934 with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The tune-filled, dance-peppered score includes "I Get a Kick Out of You", "You're the Top", "It's De-Lovely", "Blow, Gabriel, Blow", and, of course, the show-stopping title number, "Anything Goes".
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2005 Utopia, Limited - This is gallery number = 917 |
In Gilbert & Sullivan's penultimate colaboration, King Paramount, ruler of the small island of Utopia in the South Pacific, sends his daughter, the Princess Zara, to England to finish her education. She returns with a group of characters, each of who represent one of the ideals that made Britain “Great”. Chaotic and hilarious results ensue when these well-meaning, but misguided flowers of progress seek to modernise the idyllic tropical paradise by imposing their western-style reforms.
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2004 Orpheus in the Underworld - This is gallery number = 918 |
Originally performed in 1858, this is the first of Offenbach's outrageously funny 'send-ups' of Greek mythology. This hilarious operetta is based very loosely on the classical Greek legend of Orpheus's pursuit of his wife Eurydice, who is carried off to Hades by Pluto - much to the
annoyance of Jupiter. A highly disrespectful romp, it involves nymphs, shepherds, gods and goddesses, with the fun reaching its climax in the riotous revels of the celebrated "Galop” which is better known to us all as the “Can-Can” theme.
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2004 The Pirates of Penzance - This is gallery number = 919 |
In this, one of the favourite of all the Gilbert & Sullivan operas, we will find a band of swash-buckling pirates, Major Stanley’s beautiful daughters and, of course, members of the Cornish Constabulary. The list of well-known songs includes: "I am a Pirate King", "Poor wand’ring one!", "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" and "A Policeman’s lot is not a happy one".
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2003 Hello, Dolly! - This is gallery number = 920 |
“And what do you do for a living?” is the question asked at the beginning of this, one of Jerry Herman's delightful musical comedies; Mrs Dolly Gallagher Levi replies “Some people paint, some sew . . . I meddle.” We are then off on a whirlwind race around New York and Yonkers at the beginning of the 20th century as we follow the adventures of this mischievous matchmaker, accompanied by some of the most famous songs in the history of American musical comedy including "Put on your Sunday Clothes", "Before the Parade passes by" and, of course, the famous title number, "Hello, Dolly!". In the end, Dolly gets her man, and he is delighted that she has caught him.
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2003 The Rose of Persia - This is gallery number = 921 |
Arthur Sullivan collaborated with Basil Hood to write a Savoy Opera that was described by The Times as “a marriage of The Mikado and the Arabian Nights”. This is the tale of a Sultan who discovers that the addition of another wife to his 25-strong harem is just one wife too many.
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2002 Strike Up the Band - This is gallery number = 922 |
With a storyline that enacts a fable about a war between the USA and Switzerland over the price of cheese, Strike Up The Band is a zany comedy that satirises the politics and jingoistic military aspirations of 1920s America. Besides the famous title song, the show contains some of George and Ira Gershwin’s most famous musical numbers, including "Yankee Doodle Rhythm", "Meadow Serenade" and "The Man I Love".
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2002 The Gondoliers - This is gallery number = 923 |
Gilbert & Sullivan's colourful tale of mistaken identity concerns two gondoliers who have just married being told that one of them is the King of Barataria. After sailing from Venice to rule jointly they learn that one of them was married when a baby to the daughter of the Duke & Duchess of Plaza-Toro and is therefore an unintentional bigamist. The truth is eventually revealed and the opera ends with the famous "Dance a Cachuca".
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2001 The Merry Widow - This is gallery number = 924 |
Since its first performance in Vienna in 1905, Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow has become one of the most popular operettas of all time. Among the famous melodies are “You’ll find me at Maxim’s”, “Women! Women! Women!” and the famous song, “Vilia”.
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2001 The Grand Duke - This is gallery number = 925 |
Gilbert & Sullivan’s final opera is set in the Duchy of Pfennig Halbpfennig. It tells the story of a touring theatre company’s attempt to overthrow the unpopular and miserly Grand Duke. The numerous colourful characters include an English actress, the Prince and Princess of Monte Carlo, a detective and a visiting theatrical troupe. The plot incorporates multiple weddings, a duel fought with playing cards and the secret sign - eating a sausage roll!
The Savoy Singers also presented this production at the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, Buxton.
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2000 The Yeomen of the Guard - This is gallery number = 926 |
Set in the Tower of London, this Gilbert & Sullivan's most "operatic" work tells how a brave soldier who secretly marries a strolling singers is saved from execution by escaping in disguise. After a number of complications he falls in love with his own wife which leaves her jester mentor broken-hearted.
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2000 Bitter Sweet - This is gallery number = 927 |
To celebrate the new Millennium and Noel Coward's centenary, this lavish production, which is told in the 1920s, traces the life of a high society girl from the 1870s who elopes to Vienna and earns fame as a singer before returning to England in the 1890s. "I'll see you again" is just one of the many well known songs.
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1999 Princess Ida - This is gallery number = 928 |
Married in childhood to Princess Ida, Price Hilarion and his friends infiltrate her women's university prior to an invasion by his father in what is Gilbert & Sulivan's only three-act opera.
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1999 Kiss Me, Kate - This is gallery number = 929 |
| Cole Porter's musical is based - in part - on Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" includes some of the most memorable songs from the American musical songbook including "Another op'nin', another show", "Wunderbar" and "Brush up your Shakespeare".
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1998 The Mikado - This is gallery number = 930 |
Also presented by the Society at the Internatioal Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in 1999, this popular opera is set in Japan. It tells the story of Nanki Poo, the son of the Mikado, who falls in love with Yum-Yum, the ward of Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor who has been condemned to death for flirting but has now been appointed as Lord High Executioner. Difficulties ensue when the elderly Katisha – to whom Nanki-Poo had been betrothed – appears and claims her husband. However, following the visit of the Mikado, everything is resolved – most satisfactorily.
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1998 The Sorcerer - This is gallery number = 931 |
| To prove his theory that people from different classes can love and marry, an idealistic aristocrat engages the services of a sorcerer to administer a love potion to the entire village of Ploverleigh. The unanticipated results need a sacrifice to be made in order to resolve the plot of Gilbert & Sullivan's first full-length opera. This production was also the first one the Society took to the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, Buxton.
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1997 Chess - This is gallery number = 932 |
This highly-acclaimed musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson develops the ancient and distinguished game of chess into a metaphor for romantic rivalries and East-West political intrigue during the Cold War. The story revolves around a romantic triangle between two players, one Russian, the other American, in a world chess championship. From the Tyrol to Thailand, the players, lovers, politicians, CIA and KGB make their moves to the pulse of a monumental musical score which includes "One Night in Bangkok" and "I Know Him So Well".
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1997 The Zoo & HMS Pinafore - This is gallery number = 933 |
With words by Bolton Rowe and music by Arthur Sullivan, The Zoo - a one act musical folly - was teamed with one of the most popular Gilbert & Sullivan operas. Its infectious tunes include “I'm called Little Buttercup”, I'm the monarch of the sea”, “When I was a lad” and “Fair moon, to thee I sing”. The opera's gentle satire on the Royal Navy builds upon the theme of love between members of different social classes.
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1996 Merrie England - This is gallery number = 934 |
| Written in 1902 by Edward German and Basil Hood, and including the famous song "The Yeomen of England", this Edwardian musical contrasts the simple, but entirely innocent, fun of the townsfolk of Windsor with the intrigues at the Court of Elizabeth I.
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1996 Iolanthe - This is gallery number = 935 |
Strephon, an Arcadian shepherd - who is half fairy - wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. Her guardian is the Lord Chancellor who is in fact Strephon's father. When she sees Strephon kissing a seemingly young woman, Phyllis assumes the worst. But her "rival" turns out to be none other than Strephon's own mother, Iolanthe. It takes the Queen of the Fairies, plus the subtleties of the Chancellor’s legal mind, to bring about the reform of the House of Lords before all can be happily resolved. Iolanthe was written when Gilbert & Sullivan were at the peak of their careers, and includes the famous entrance of the Peers.
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1995 The Gipsy Princess - This is gallery number = 936 |
Composed by the celebrated Hungarian composer Emmerich Kalman, this operetta was first performed in Vienna in 1915. It tells of the lover between Sylva Varescu, a cabaret singer, and Prince Peter whose father disapproves of the affair. Sylva returns to Austria from engagements in America to discover Peter betrothed to his cousin, but true love finally wins. With its famous waltz song and "To love and to be loved", this show was performed at Farnham's Redgrave Theatre whilst Camberley Theatre was being renovated.
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1995 Ruddigore - This is gallery number = 937 |
In Gilbert & Sullivan’s melodramatic “supernatural opera”, we meet the villain who carries off a maiden; the priggishly good-mannered, poor-but-virtuous heroine; the hero in disguise and his faithful retainer who dream of their former glory days; the nautical snake-in-the-grass who claims to be following his heart; the wild, mad girl; the swagger of fire-eating patriotism; and, in one of the most famous scenes in the Gilbert & Sullivan canon, the ancestors’ ghosts who come to life to enforce an ancient curse. Ruddigore includes many well-known numbers including "When the night wind howls", "Happily coupled are we", Welcome, gentry", and arguably the most beautiful duet written by Gilbert & Sullivan: "There grew a little flower".
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1994 Trial by Jury & Songs from the Shows - This is gallery number = 938 |
| Gilbert & Sullivan's first successful collaboration, described as a "dramatic cantata", is set in a court of law with Angelina suing Edwin for breach of promise of marriage. Our performance at Frimley Parish Hall was followed by songs from a selection of modern musicals including Jesus Christ Superstar, Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables.
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1994 The Pirates of Penzance - This is gallery number = 939 |
In this, one of the favourite of all the Gilbert & Sullivan operas, we will find a band of swash-buckling pirates, Major Stanley’s beautiful daughters and, of course, members of the Cornish Constabulary. The list of well-known songs includes: "I am a Pirate King", "Poor wand’ring
one!", "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" and "A Policeman’s lot is not a happy one". This production was taken to Bietigheim, Surrey Heath's twin town in southern Germany, later that year.
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1993 La Belle Helene - This is gallery number = 940 |
| The German composer Jakob Offenbach changed his name to Jacques when moving to Paris where he wrote many operettas in a style which became more French than the French. His second ancient Greek operetta is set in Sparta where Helen rules before being taken to Troy by Paris who was awarded with the most beautiful girl in the world.
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1993 Patience - This is gallery number = 941 |
The ever-popular Patience - in this production set in the "flower power" era - contains some of Gilbert & Sullivan’s most delightful numbers, including: "Twenty love-sick maidens we", "The soldiers of the Queen", "When I first put this uniform on", and "A magnet hung in a hardware shop". Whilst Patience, a dairy-made, has never loved anyone (except her aunt), the officers of the Dragoon Guards now have to compete with a bunch of æsthetics for their twenty love-sick maidens who would rather buy tickets to win a raffle to become Bunthorne’s bride.
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1992 Die Fledermaus - This is gallery number = 942 |
For their first ever non-G&S show, the Savoy Singers chose Johanne Strauss the younger's most celebrated and popular operetta - intoxicatingly melodious and exuberant. Mistaken identities, flirtations at a masked ball, elegant frivolities and confusions of all kinds provide a hilarious vehicle for some of the most captivating music ever written, including "Champagne", "The Laughing Song" and "Brother Mine".
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1992 The Gondoliers - This is gallery number = 943 |
Gilbert & Sullivan's colourful tale of mistaken identity concerns two gondoliers who have just married being told that one of them is the King of Barataria. After sailing from Venice to rule jointly they learn that one of them was married when a baby to the daughter of the Duke & Duchess of Plaza-Toro and is therefore an unintentional bigamist. The truth is eventually revealed and the opera ends with the famous "Dance a Cachuca".
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1991 The Yeomen of the Guard - This is gallery number = 944 |
Set in the Tower of London, this Gilbert & Sullivan's most "operatic" work tells how a brave soldier who secretly marries a strolling singers is saved from execution by escaping in disguise. After a number of complications he falls in love with his own wife which leaves her jester mentor broken-hearted.
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1990 The Mikado - This is gallery number = 945 |
Set in Japan, this is one of the most popular Gilbert & Sullivan operas. It tells the story of Nanki Poo, the son of the Mikado, who falls in love with Yum-Yum, the ward of Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor who has been condemned to death for flirting but has now been appointed as Lord High Executioner. Difficulties ensue when the elderly Katisha – to whom Nanki-Poo had been betrothed – appears and claims her husband. However, following the visit of the Mikado, everything is resolved – most satisfactorily.
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1989 HMS Pinafore - This is gallery number = 946 |
Among the most popular Gilbert & Sullivan operas, this was their first blockbuster hit, perhaps because of its infectious tunes including “I'm called Little Buttercup”, "I'm the monarch of the sea”, “When I was a lad” and “Fair moon, to thee I sing”. The opera's gentle satire on the Royal Navy builds upon the theme of love between members of different social classes.
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1988 Princess Ida - This is gallery number = 947 |
Married in childhood to Princess Ida, Price Hilarion and his friends infiltrate her women's university prior to an invasion by his father in what is Gilbert & Sulivan's only three-act opera.
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1987 Iolanthe - This is gallery number = 948 |
Strephon, an Arcadian shepherd - who is half fairy - wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. Her guardian is the Lord Chancellor who is in fact Strephon's father. When she sees Strephon kissing a seemingly young woman, Phyllis assumes the worst. But her "rival" turns out to be none other than Strephon's own mother, Iolanthe. It takes the Queen of the Fairies, plus the subtleties of the Chancellor’s legal mind, to bring about the reform of the House of Lords before all can be happily resolved. Iolanthe was written when Gilbert & Sullivan were at the peak of their careers, and includes the famous entrance of the Peers.
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1986 The Sorcerer - This is gallery number = 949 |
| To prove his theory that people from different classes can love and marry, an idealistic aristocrat engages the services of a sorcerer to administer a love potion to the entire village of Ploverleigh. The unanticipated results need a sacrifice to be made in order to resolve the plot of Gilbert & Sullivan's first full-length opera.
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1985 The Pirates of Penzance - This is gallery number = 950 |
In this, one of the favourite of all the Gilbert & Sullivan operas, we will find a band of swash-buckling pirates, Major Stanley’s beautiful daughters and, of course, members of the Cornish Constabulary. The list of well-known songs includes: "I am a Pirate King", "Poor wand’ring one!", "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" and "A Policeman’s lot is not a happy one".
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1984 The Gondoliers - This is gallery number = 951 |
Gilbert & Sullivan's colourful tale of mistaken identity concerns two gondoliers who have just married being told that one of them is the King of Barataria. After sailing from Venice to rule jointly they learn that one of them was married when a baby to the daughter of the Duke & Duchess of Plaza-Toro and is therefore an unintentional bigamist. The truth is eventually revealed and the opera ends with the famous "Dance a Cachuca".
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1983 Ruddigore - This is gallery number = 952 |
In Gilbert & Sullivan’s melodramatic “supernatural opera”, we meet the villain who carries off a maiden; the priggishly good-mannered, poor-but-virtuous heroine; the hero in disguise and his faithful retainer who dream of their former glory days; the nautical snake-in-the-grass who claims to be following his heart; the wild, mad girl; the swagger of fire-eating patriotism; and, in one of the most famous scenes in the Gilbert & Sullivan canon, the ancestors’ ghosts who come to life to enforce an ancient curse. Ruddigore includes many well-known numbers including "When the night wind howls", "Happily coupled are we", Welcome, gentry", and arguably the most beautiful duet written by Gilbert & Sullivan: "There grew a little flower".
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1982 The Mikado - This is gallery number = 953 |
Set in Japan, this is one of the most popular Gilbert & Sullivan operas. It tells the story of Nanki Poo, the son of the Mikado, who falls in love with Yum-Yum, the ward of Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor who has been condemned to death for flirting but has now been appointed as Lord High Executioner. Difficulties ensue when the elderly Katisha – to whom Nanki-Poo had been betrothed – appears and claims her husband. However, following the visit of the Mikado, everything is resolved – most satisfactorily.
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1981 Patience - This is gallery number = 954 |
The ever-popular Patience contains some of Gilbert & Sullivan’s most delightful numbers, including: "Twenty love-sick maidens we", "The soldiers of the Queen", "When I first put this uniform on", and "A magnet hung in a hardware shop". Whilst Patience, a dairy-made, has never loved anyone (except her aunt), the officers of the Dragoon Guards now have to compete with a bunch of æsthetics for their twenty love-sick maidens who would rather buy tickets to win a raffle to become Bunthorne’s bride.
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1980 Princess Ida - This is gallery number = 955 |
Married in childhood to Princess Ida, Price Hilarion and his friends infiltrate her women's university prior to an invasion by his father in what is Gilbert & Sulivan's only three-act opera.
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1979 The Yeomen of the Guard - This is gallery number = 956 |
Set in the Tower of London, this Gilbert & Sullivan's most "operatic" work tells how a brave soldier who secretly marries a strolling singers is saved from execution by escaping in disguise. After a number of complications he falls in love with his own wife which leaves her jester mentor broken-hearted.
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1978 The Sorcerer - This is gallery number = 957 |
| To prove his theory that people from different classes can love and marry, an idealistic aristocrat engages the services of a sorcerer to administer a love potion to the entire village of Ploverleigh. The unanticipated results need a sacrifice to be made in order to resolve the plot of Gilbert & Sullivan's first full-length opera.
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1977 Iolanthe - This is gallery number = 958 |
Strephon, an Arcadian shepherd - who is half fairy - wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. Her guardian is the Lord Chancellor who is in fact Strephon's father. When she sees Strephon kissing a seemingly young woman, Phyllis assumes the worst. But her "rival" turns out to be none other than Strephon's own mother, Iolanthe. It takes the Queen of the Fairies, plus the subtleties of the Chancellor’s legal mind, to bring about the reform of the House of Lords before all can be happily resolved. Iolanthe was written when Gilbert & Sullivan were at the peak of their careers, and includes the famous entrance of the Peers.
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1976 The Gondoliers - This is gallery number = 959 |
Gilbert & Sullivan's colourful tale of mistaken identity concerns two gondoliers who have just married being told that one of them is the King of Barataria. After sailing from Venice to rule jointly they learn that one of them was married when a baby to the daughter of the Duke & Duchess of Plaza-Toro and is therefore an unintentional bigamist. The truth is eventually revealed and the opera ends with the famous "Dance a Cachuca".
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1975 The Pirates of Penzance - This is gallery number = 960 |
In this, one of the favourite of all the Gilbert & Sullivan operas, we will find a band of swash-buckling pirates, Major Stanley’s beautiful daughters and, of course, members of the Cornish Constabulary. The list of well-known songs includes: "I am a Pirate King", "Poor wand’ring one!", "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" and "A Policeman’s lot is not a happy one".
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1974 The Mikado - This is gallery number = 961 |
Set in Japan, this is one of the most popular Gilbert & Sullivan operas. It tells the story of Nanki Poo, the son of the Mikado, who falls in love with Yum-Yum, the ward of Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor who has been condemned to death for flirting but has now been appointed as Lord High Executioner. Difficulties ensue when the elderly Katisha – to whom Nanki-Poo had been betrothed – appears and claims her husband. However, following the visit of the Mikado, everything is resolved – most satisfactorily.
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1973 Ruddigore - This is gallery number = 962 |
In Gilbert & Sullivan’s melodramatic “supernatural opera”, we meet the villain who carries off a maiden; the priggishly good-mannered, poor-but-virtuous heroine; the hero in disguise and his faithful retainer who dream of their former glory days; the nautical snake-in-the-grass who claims to be following his heart; the wild, mad girl; the swagger of fire-eating patriotism; and, in one of the most famous scenes in the Gilbert & Sullivan canon, the ancestors’ ghosts who come to life to enforce an ancient curse. Ruddigore includes many well-known numbers including "When the night wind howls", "Happily coupled are we", Welcome, gentry", and arguably the most beautiful duet written by Gilbert & Sullivan: "There grew a little flower".
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1972 The Yeomen of the Guard - This is gallery number = 963 |
Set in the Tower of London, this Gilbert & Sullivan's most "operatic" work tells how a brave soldier who secretly marries a strolling singers is saved from execution by escaping in disguise. After a number of complications he falls in love with his own wife which leaves her jester mentor broken-hearted.
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1971 Trial by Jury & HMS Pinafore - This is gallery number = 964 |
Gilbert & Sullivan's dramatic cantata set in a courtroom preceded one of their most popular operas. This was their first blockbuster hit, perhaps because of its infectious tunes including “I'm called Little Buttercup”, I'm the monarch of the sea”, “When I was a lad” and “Fair moon, to thee I sing”. The opera's gentle satire on the Royal Navy builds upon the theme of love between members of different social classes.
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1970 Iolanthe - This is gallery number = 965 |
Strephon, an Arcadian shepherd - who is half fairy - wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. Her guardian is the Lord Chancellor who is in fact Strephon's father. When she sees Strephon kissing a seemingly young woman, Phyllis assumes the worst. But her "rival" turns out to be none other than Strephon's own mother, Iolanthe. It takes the Queen of the Fairies, plus the subtleties of the Chancellor’s legal mind, to bring about the reform of the House of Lords before all can be happily resolved. Iolanthe was written when Gilbert & Sullivan were at the peak of their careers, and includes the famous entrance of the Peers.
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1969 The Gondoliers - This is gallery number = 966 |
For their first ever show, the Savoy Singers chose The Gondoliers, Gilbert & Sullivan's colourful tale of mistaken identity which concerns two gondoliers who have just married being told that one of them is the King of Barataria. After sailing from Venice to rule jointly, they learn that one of them was married when a baby to the daughter of the Duke & Duchess of Plaza-Toro and is therefore an unintentional bigamist. The truth is eventually revealed and the opera ends with the famous "Dance a Cachuca".
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