The Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
Their Best-Loved Operas: H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado, Iolanthe, The Pirates of Penzance, The Gondoliers
- 464pages
- 17 heures de lecture
The Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan 1 (v. 1) by William Gilbert (1983)
William Schwenck Gilbert Livres
Gilbert's verses for Sullivan's music are the most fastidiously turned and inventively rhymed in all lyric comedy. As the Savoy Operas enter their second century on a swell of renewed popularity, Gilbert's reputation as the supreme wordsmith of light opera remains secure.Complete and authentic, these are the librettos on which modern performances and recordings are based. Scattered among the songs are over seventy of the amusing, quirky pictures Gilbert drew to illustrate them. A chronology prepared for this edition sketches the authors' lives and careers. This is a book that no lover of Gilbert and Sullivan, musical comedy, or indeed the English theater will want to be without.
Trial by Jury, Full Score
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
The Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan 2
Their Best-Loved Operas: Trial by Jury, The Sorcerer, Patience, Princess Ida, Ruddigore, The Yeomen of the Guard
- 520pages
- 19 heures de lecture
The full texts of the lyrics for six of the operas are accompanied by critical commentary