Best Of Gilbert & Sullivan Vol.1, The (Trial By Jury/HMS Pinafore/The Pirates Of Penzance/Iol anthe) - D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Cast

Prettily pattering, cheerily chattering Operetta

Advantages: The wit, the songs, the dialogue, the costumes
Disadvantages: A satire on anyone who follows the asthetic movement

experience Patience is undoubtably by watching and listening to a live performance. If however you do get the opportuninty for this, there are DVD and CDs available. The London Symphony Orchestra have recorded Patience on DVD with an introduction by Douglas Fairbanks. This retails from about £18.75 and is available in most music stores. Austalia Opera have recorded Patience on DVD which is available through the internet on Amazon from £13.78. There are also a number of CDs available containing some or all of the operetta. Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gold Collection, which includes four tracks from Patience (The soldiers of our queen, Am I alone and unobserved?, If you're anxious to shine, So go to him and say to him). It is performed by th D?Oyly Carte Opera Chorus and produced by the Decca label. It is available from about £8.99 so is ...

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Review of Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience - D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

O ni, bikkuri shakkuri to

Advantages: The most popular, the most perfect, the most performed
Disadvantages: None

Gilbert, Sullivan, D?Oyly Carte! Three great names from the Victorian era of musical drama. The Gilbert and Sullivan operas remain as popular now as they ever were when written over a century ago. They stir the imagination of audiences and performers (professional and amateur) like no other in the dramatic canon. Depending on your definition there are fourteen titles in the catalogue in total (including the now lost ?Thespis?). ?The Mikado? is probably the most popular of the ?big five? (which also includes ?HMS Pinafore?, ?The Gondoliers?, ?Pirates of Penzance? and ?Iolanthe?). Themes from any of these operas still have the effect of getting toes tapping and promoting whistling whenever they are played. The name of D?Oyly Carte will be forever linked with Gilbert and Sullivan as will the Savoy Theatre in the Strand, London. We are ...

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Review of Best Of Gilbert & Sullivan Vol.2, The (The Yeoman Of The Guard/The Mikado/The Gondoliers) - D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Cast

I am blithe and I am gay

Advantages: a range of good music, well-known songs and barbed humour.
Disadvantages: Somewhat abstract and distant for a modern audience

?straight? in the role of Bunthorne but easily captures the languid laid-back persona in his solos. The literary notes describe him as a ?Fleshy poet?. The performance is complete with the spoken libretto. PATIENCE - Gilbert & Sullivan (1961) The D?Oyly Carte Opera Company The New Symphony Orchestra of London: Conducted by Isidore Godfrey. Soloists: John Reed (Reginald Bunthorne); Philip Potter (The Duke of Dunstable) Donald Adams (Colonel Calverley); Mary Sansom (Patience) Gillian Knight (The Lady Jane); Kenneth Sandford (Archibald Grosvenor) CD: LONDON 414429-2 (£11.99) Amazon has a web page dedicated to this CD performance which has playable excepts from five of the tracks. The web address is: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000041VE/qid=1050341050/sr=1-3/ref=sr133/026-3122673-6366036 LIBRETTO ...

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Review of Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience - D'Oyly Carte Opera Company