Gilbert and Sullivan: Interviews and Recollections - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333639057 ISBN 13: 9780333639054

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995

Synopsis

Sir William Schwenk Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan created fourteen comic operas - witty satires set to sparkling music - that instantly won a large and enthusiastic audience and remain immensely popular today. Their talents brought the two men together and their temperaments finally drove them apart. Here, in forty interviews and recollections, is a record of what was said about them during and shortly after their lifetimes by friends, musicians, theatrical managers, singers, actors, and actresses, journalists and authors. For Gilbert and Sullivan devotees everywhere, this entertaining collection will provide fresh insights into the careers and collaborative achievements of one of the most successful - and enduring - enterprises of Victorian theatre.

About this title

Synopsis

Presenting 40 interviews and recollections, this book is a record of what was said about Sir William Schwenck Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan during and shortly after their lifetimes, by friends, musicians, theatrical managers, singers, actors and actresses, journalists and authors. Gilbert and Sullivan created 14 comic operas - witty satires set to sparkling music - that instantly won a large and enthusiastic audience. Their talents brought them together; their temperaments drove them apart. This composite biography aims to provide the reader with a clear sense of their careers, both as independent artists and as collaborators in one of the most successful enterprises of the Victorian theatre.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333639057
• ISBN 13: 9780333639054
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234
• Editor: Orel Harold