After watching Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Iolanthe” as produced bythe Lyric Opera San Diego, one question comes to mind: Why isn’tthis light opera performed more often? Sure, it’s filled with the ...

Some would say “Iolanthe” is the greatest operetta from the collaboration of William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. The show combines all the elements that had characterized their successes, said ...

Friday, November 19, Village Light Opera presents Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University. Founded in 1935 by a group of doctors, the Village ...

′The Loveland Opera Theatre is debuting “Iolanthe,” a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta first performed in 1882. “Iolanthe” pokes fun at the British ruling class by way of a comic misunderstanding of the ...

Chorus of Fairies, Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Viscou is a role in Iolanthe, a opera that opened Broadway in 1931. Strephon, an Arcadian shepherd, wants to marry Phyllis, a ward of the Court of Chancery.

After a season that has often gone for baroque, two farcical romps from either end of the form’s rich history will round out the region's operatic offerings for 2023. First, fluttering fairies and ...

Does Gilbert and Sullivan need updating for our changed times? Cal McCrystal explains why his joyful new Iolanthe contains not a single lecherous peer but plenty of feisty fairies I’ve never been a ...

Valley Light Opera returns to Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" in their cyclic 36-year survey of operettas by that estimable British duo. "Iolanthe," subtitled "The Peer and the Peri," last mounted ...

The creations of Paul Brown, who died last year, will star in ENO’s new version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic If the audience laughs out loud at a new London Coliseum production of Iolanthe, ...

ASKING a director of hit film or theatre to have a go at operas is a bit of a risky strategy. So is putting on Gilbert and Sullivan in a modern opera house. The latest production by the English ...

ASKING a director of hit film or theatre to have a go at operas is a bit of a risky strategy. So is putting on Gilbert and Sullivan in a modern opera house. The latest production by the English ...