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Gilbert and Sullivan

June 2024

  • Margaret Curphey for obits Mum 08 Il Trovatore – Margaret Curphey as Leonora – English National Opera early 1970s (sorry, we don’t have a record of the exact date) Dad thinks all the photographs were taken by the Sadlers Wells/ENO in-house photographer.

    Letter: Margaret Curphey obituary

    Peter Rankin writes: Her husband could wake his wife in the middle of the night, ask her to sing top C and she would – and she would get it right

September 2023

  • Michael Elcock leaps high in Hex at the National Theatre.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Rufus Norris’s barmy take on Sleeping Beauty, Ian McKellen unmasked and more

    Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes the warped fairytale Hex, Neil LaBute’s dark relationship comedy and a classic Gilbert & Sullivan romp

August 2023

  • Stephen Gadd as Sir Roderic Murgatroyd and Chorus in Opera Holland Park's co-production of Ruddigore with Charles Court Opera 2023 © Craig Fuller

    Ruddigore review – straight staging maroons G&S’s silly satire in the Victorian age

    It’s a stretch to make this slight 19th-century satire speak to a modern audience, and tremendous singing is not enough to make it do so here

May 2023

  • HMS Pinafore poster, 1878.

    From the Guardian archive
    HMS Pinafore premiere – archive, 1878

    27 May 1878: The music is sparkling and pretty enough, but while there is plenty of absurdity in the plot there is very little real humour

January 2023

  • A child opens a present at Christmas

    Brief letters
    My thrifty mother even recycled the presents she liked

    Brief letters: Recycling gifts | Gilbert and Sullivan’s Lord Mountararat | Northern culture | Welsh walks

November 2022

  • Susan Bickley, centre, as Dame Carruthers, and company in The Yeomen of the Guard.

    The week in classical: The Yeomen of the Guard; Alcina – music under siege

    ENO stands firm amid extreme funding cuts with a Gilbert and Sullivan staging full of vim and vigour, while animal magic ripples through Richard Jones’s new Alcina
  • Anthony Gregory (Colonel Fairfax), right, in The Yeomen Of The Guard by Gilbert & Sullivan @ Coliseum. Directed by Jo Davies. Conductor, Chris Hopkins. (Opening 03-11-2022) ©Tristram Kenton 11-22 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The Yeomen of the Guard review – tonal uncertainties but G&S update has plenty to enjoy

    Jo Davies’ 1950-set staging of the late G&S opera may not fully cohere but musically we’re in excellent hands and Richard McCabe’s is a moving – and sweatily desperate – Jack Point
  • Ross Ramgobin (Grosvenor), centre, in Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan @ Hackney Empire. An English Touring Opera production directed by Liam Steel. Conducted by Timothy Burke. (Opening 09-03-17) ©Tristram Kenton 03/17 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    In good company with Gilbert and Sullivan

    Letter: Charles Mackerras and Carlos Kleiber were fans too, writes Chris Crowcroft

October 2022

  • 'The Pirates of Penzance' at the Gielgud Theatre, London, Britain - 18 Feb 2008<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jonathan Hordle/Shutterstock (739704l) 'The Pirates of Penzance' 'The Pirates of Penzance' at the Gielgud Theatre, London, Britain - 18 Feb 2008

    Modern and major: how Gilbert and Sullivan still skewer England’s absurdities

    Dismiss their works at your peril. Strip the barnacles of stale tradition off the Victorian duos’s light operettas and their seditious glory still shines

June 2022

  • Gilbert O'Sullivan performing at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

    Brief letters
    The no-show that irked fans of Gilbert O’Sullivan

    Brief letters: Gilbert and Sullivan | Remembering Richard Spriggs | Finding sunshine in Wales | Republican celebrations | Imperial measures

November 2021

  • Rufus Bateman and John Savournin in HMS Pinafore.

    The week in classical: HMS Pinafore; 12 Ensemble – review

    The ENO delights with a lavish staging of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, while the conductor-less string group tackle Max Richter’s mesmerising take on Vivaldi

October 2021

  • He’s got the patter … Les Dennis (centre) as Sir Joseph in HMS Pinafore.

    HMS Pinafore review – ENO’s shipshape satire ramps up the camp

  • Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow.

    The Gondoliers review – a picture-postcard Gilbert and Sullivan from Scottish Opera

August 2021

  • Eyot House and arced pedestrian footbridge

    D’Oyly Carte Island, complete with crumbling mansion, sold for £3m

    Mystery local buyer hopes to restore Thames site to the very model of its Gilbert and Sullivan days

July 2021

  • Leon Greene as the Roman soldier Miles Gloriosus, with Jack Gilford in disguise as Philea, in Richard Lester’s 1966 film of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

    Leon Greene obituary

    Opera singer turned actor who made his mark in stage and screen versions of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

March 2019

  • Duncan Weldon WINNER of a SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD Portraits of Oliviers 2018 nominees. Olivier Awards 2018 nominees celebration at the Rosewood Hotel, London. Photograph by David Levene 9/3/18

    Letter: Duncan Weldon obituary

    Michael Meadowcroft writes: Duncan Weldon asked me if I would direct a series of performances of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance

November 2018

  • Richard Baker in 1964. It was in programmes connected with music, his personal passion – he was an amateur pianist and cellist – that his enthusiasm most shone through.

    Richard Baker obituary

    Popular BBC newsreader who hosted Radio 4’s Start the Week and the Last Night of the Proms

June 2018

  • Richard Thompson

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about kings

    A regal list this week includes songs from Richard Thompson, Gilbert and Sullivan, Boy George and the Proclaimers

May 2018

  • 59 50 Hedley Mitchells High Street Erith-awaiting demolition April 1966

    Made in ...
    Wendy Cope on Erith: 'A place few people have heard of and even fewer can pronounce'

    The poet traces her love of Gilbert and Sullivan to amateur operatic productions at the theatre in the town

February 2018

  • Barnaby Rea as Private Willis in ENO’s Iolanthe.

    The week in classical: Iolanthe; Jerusalem Quartet – review

    Cal McCrystal delivers a masterclass in horsing around with his riotous G&S for English National Opera
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