Gilbert and Sullivan: Interviews and Recollections

by Harold Orel (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333639054
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/18/1995
Series:	Interviews and Recollections
Edition description:	1994
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface - Introduction - INTERVIEWS AND RECOLLECTIONS - PART 1: GILBERT, MOSTLY WITHOUT SULLIVAN - PART 2: SULLIVAN, MOSTLY WITHOUT GILBERT

Editorial Reviews

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, actors, and writers provides a composite biography of their careers both as independent artists and as collaborators. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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