Gilbert and Sullivan

A Gilbert and Sullivan Family Christmas Show will take place on November 22 at St Bartholomew's Church, Forest Hall with two perofmances the following day at Trinity Church in Gosforth.

"We come back," he writes, "to that quality of divine emollient and that indefinable but unmistakably spiritual essence which are at the heart of Gilbert and Sullivan's work" (p.

Gilbert and Sullivan were an unlikely pair, but once brought together, Gilbert, the witty wordsmith, and Sullivan, the artful music maker, produced some of the most enduring comic operas ever - chief among them "The Mikado," "The Pirates of Penzance" and "HMS Pinafore."

This is a one act cantata which was first performed in 1875 and is the only work by Gilbert and Sullivan which is entirely without spoken dialogue.

Gilbert and Sullivan operettas are not the easiest of things to perform.

Ian is best known as the founder and artistic director of the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival which has been attracting G&S fans to Buxton in Derbyshire since 1994.

Worcester Gilbert and Sullivan Society took to the streets to act out scenes from their latest show The Gondoliers.

COVENTRY-BORN panto supremo Stephen Duckham has turned his hand to a new challenge - one of Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas.

It used to be part of the Gilbert and Sullivan tradition that musical directors were forced to conduct from annotated piano-vocal scores, since only German full scores of H.M.S.

Just what set designer Don Carson intended to pop the eyes of patrons attending the Eugene Opera this Friday and next Sunday for its production of Gilbert and Sullivan's popular comic opera.

Imagine my surprise, then, when I found that this film wasn't about the coiffed crooner with the bubble perm from hell (actually from Swindon), but Gilbert and Sullivan, creators of the famous Savoy Operas.

In Topsy Turvy the director reveals a hitherto well disguised passion for Gilbert and Sullivan, creators of comic operas and patron saints to musical am-dram groups everywhere.