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The Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas
Our group is dedicated to performing the joint works of Sir W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911), playwright and humorist, and Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900), unofficial composer laureate of England and favorite of Queen Victoria.
Together they wrote a series of fourteen comic operettas (including H.M.S.
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Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado) which were wildly popular in their own time and are still widely performed by amateur and professional groups today, over a hundred years after their creation.
These operettas were the forerunners of our modern musicals, and in many ways resemble them more than they do the grand operas.
Their songs and choruses -- mostly light and comic in nature -- are interspersed with spoken dialogue rather than recitative. In fact, few if any of the performers in Gilbert and Sullivan's original productions were professional opera singers; some of the chorus members were even outright amateurs.
Though over a century