Utopia Limited is the second-to-last of Gilbert and Sullivan's fourteen collaborations. Gilbert's libretto satirises limited liability companies, and particularly the idea that a bankrupt company could leave creditors unpaid without any liability to its owners. It performed much less frequently than most other G&S operas, mainly because the subject-matter and plot are too obscure for modern audiences. Titles: In Lazy Languor Motionless * O Make Way for the Wise Men * In Every Mental Lore * Let All Your Doubts Take Wing * Quaff the Nectar * A King of Autocratic Power We * Although of...
Utopia Limited is the second-to-last of Gilbert and Sullivan's fourteen collaborations. Gilbert's libretto satirises limited liability companies, and ...
Gilbert & Sullivan's second most successful comic opera of its day, and now the most performed Savoy opera by amateur societies. Titles: If You Want to Know Who We Are * A Wand'ring Minstrel I * Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man * Young Man, Despair * Behold the Lord High Executioner * As Some Day It May Happen * Comes a Train of Little Ladies * Three Little Maids from School Are We * So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret * Were You Not to Ko-Ko Plighted * I Am So Proud * With Aspect Stern and Gloomy Stride * The Threatened Cloud Has Passed Away * Your Revels Cease * Oh Fool, That Fleest My...
Gilbert & Sullivan's second most successful comic opera of its day, and now the most performed Savoy opera by amateur societies. Titles: If You Wa...
The Pirates of Penzance takes its place along with The Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore as one of the more frequently performed Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Its successful 1981 Broadway revival by Joseph Papp refreshed its popularity. Titles: Pour, Oh Pour, the Pirate Sherry * When Fred'ric Was a Little Lad * Oh, Better Far to Live and Die * Oh False One, You Have Deceived Me * Climbing Over Rocky Mountain * Stop, Ladies, Pray * Oh Is There Not One Maiden Breast * Poor Wand'ring One * What Ought We to Do? * How Beautifully Blue the Sky * Stay, We Must Not Lose Our Senses * Hold, Monsters *...
The Pirates of Penzance takes its place along with The Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore as one of the more frequently performed Gilbert and Sullivan operas....