Arthur Sullivan News

West Wittering soprano Lisa Swayne will be helping Opera South celebrates its silver jubilee at its Trafalgar Night extravaganza, Sing A Song Of Empire on Saturday, October 24 at Branksome Place, Hindhead Road, Haslemere.

Poor William S. Gilbert. His prodigious life's work as a playwright, poet, and lyricist, along with the music of his collaborator Arthur Sullivan, has been out of copyright for almost five decades.

Opera North, England is planning a new production of Ruddigore by W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan for winter 2010.

Ridgway Auditorium at the Principia, 13201 Clayton Road, and the Town & Country Symphony Orchestra present the first concert of the fall Sunday at 2:30 p.m. The program will include Arthur Sullivan's "Iolanthe Overture," Max Bruch's "Romanze, Op.

When the house lights came on at Tuesday's opening night of "HMS Pinafore," I thought, is it intermission already? College Light Opera Company's production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta is so bright and sprightly, it fairly prances across the stage.

A classic comic-opera takes centre stage at the Maple Ridge Arts Centre and Theatre this month.

AMID tumultuous recession, swine flu hysteria and political scandals, the world is crying out for old-fashioned common sense and values.

Act I will stage its production of The Mikado on August 7th through the 22nd at the Darkhorse Theatre located at 1410 Charlotte Ave.

Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta, "The Mikado," or "The Town of Titipu," currently in production at the Arundel Barn Playhouse, is a visual and auditory delight.

Arthur Sullivan and William S. Gilbert reunited after one of their quarrels by Richard D'Oyly Carte Summer Music West is the summer "semester" for the Preparatory Division of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

THE members of Portlaoise Musical Society are now planning their next show and are working hard to make it bigger and better than last year.

Baritone Lucas Meachem was the high-stepping Strephon in the San Francisco Symphony's production of Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe." Class-crazy England loves to lampoon its lords and ladies and their stuck-up ways.

"You have been rehearsing 'Perola,' but when the curtain goes up, the opera will be called 'Iolanthe.'" - Arthur Sullivan to the cast of "Iolanthe" during the final run-through before opening.

It's May and time again for Jacksonville Opera Theatre's production of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.

There may be much "arrrr-ing" and other pirate-speak in the air as the opening of The Fraser Valley Gilbert & Sullivan Society's latest version of The Pirates Of Penzance approaches.