Sullivan: (The) Yeomen of the Guard; Trial by Jury

The operetta “Yeomen of the Guard” turned out to be the penultimate major popular collaboration between WS Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. It came at a time of increasing difficulties in communications between the two musical protagonists and in its way is a departure from what had become their trademark Opera Comique”. The story is a tragic one – a simple jester losing the love of his life to a condemned and then reprieved hero – interspersed by ...
...the initial libretto, it is the only work where one of the cast probably dies at the end (unless you count the hellish departure of John Wellington Wells from “The Sorcerer”). From the musical point of view it was the nearest that Sullivan came to writing “a Grand Opera” (indeed they dropped the term “comic” from their descriptions). It is also run through with patriotic English themes. THE PLOT The scene is set on the green inside the Tower of ...

Newfloridian 22.05.2003 · Read full review
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