Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
Last updated: 17.12.19
Hardcover - 1197 pages (October 1996), usually ships within 24 hours.
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Gilbert and Sullivan, librettist and composer, were classically Victorian
gentlemen whose comic operas for the Savoy Theater under impresario
Richard D'Oyly Carte have endured down to the present day despite the
disappearance of the British imperial world which they lampooned. Theirs
was a happy combination of Sullivan's cheerily catchy tunes and Gilbert's
witty lyrics which captured the comedy of universal human nature. Ian
Bradley, annotator of an earlier Gilbert and Sullivan collection, completes
and updates the record with the inclusion here of the last collaborations of
the two, and new introductions to the operettas that reflect modern
interpretations.