Gilbert and Sullivan: Interviews and Recollections - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877454426 ISBN 13: 9780877454427

Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr, 1994

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.

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Synopsis

Together, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan created 14 comic operas that instantly won large, enthusiastic audiences. But eventually their temperaments drove them apart. This collection of 40 interviews and recollections recording what was said about them during and shortly after their lifetimes by friends, musicians, managers, a

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877454426
• ISBN 13: 9780877454427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Editor: Orel Harold