Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan

W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan produced several of the most popular operas and operettas of all time. Sullivan's music was always memorable and tuneful while Gilbert's libretti had both wit and pathos. This book contains several Gilbert and Sullivan selections for the Tenor singer including 'Take pair Of Sparkling Eyes' and 'A Wand'ring Minstrel I' and comes with a CD of the Piano accompaniments from the book for those occasions when a pianist cannot be found for practice!

This opera had its premiere on December 31 1879 at the Fifth Avenue Theater in New York with Arthur Sullivan conducting. It opened on April 3 1880 at the Opera Comique in London and ran for 363 performances.

W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan produced several of the most popular operas and operettas of all time. Sullivan's music was always memorable and tuneful while Gilbert's libretti had both wit and pathos. This book contains several Gilbert and Sullivan selections for the Baritone/Bass singer including 'When You're Lying Awake with a Dismal Headache' and 'I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General' and comes with access to online recordings of the Piano accompaniments from the book for those occasions when a pianist cannot be found for practice!

Yeomen of the Guard is a more ‘serious’ Gilbert and Sullivan opera and this perhaps accounts for it’s original lukewarm reception as it ran contrary to audience expectation. Set in the Tower of London in the sixteenth century the libretto concerns a jester Jack Point and his girl Elsie who plot to aid a war hero who is sentenced to die in the Tower. That hero Colonel Fairfax has been condemned to die by a relative who stands to inherit his fortune. Fairfax wants to marry someone just before his execution so that his bride will inherit instead. Jack sets Elsie up to marry Fairfax thinking it will do no harm. However Fairfax escapes and remains in thearea in disguise. He spots Jack trying to woo Elsie and gives a demonstration of the proper way to woo winning Elsie's affections himself. In the end everyone pairs off except Jack who loses Elsie to Fairfax and is heartbroken.

The text of The Long Day Closes is a contemplation of death and was sung frequently at funerals in the late 1800’s particularly the funerals of members of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company. This setting uses the full range of allthe Voice parts.Composer Arthur Sullivan is known the world over for his operatic collaborations with W S Gilbert including H M S Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance among many others. But Sullivan was also a composer of manother works among them operas Orchestral works ballets and hymns and church pieces. He wrote most of his part songs unaccompanied songs for SATB usually before his partnership with Gilbert began.

Sullivan's setting of the Te Deum Laudamus in D is written for mixed chorus with Organ accompaniment.

The World's Great Classical Music-The World's Great Classical Music. The masters of English operetta lyricist/librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan defined the genre and influenced all musical theatre after them. This comprehensive collection in our acclaimed World's Great Classical Music series presents 67 selections from 13 of their collaborations including H.M.S. Pinafore The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Features arias duets and ensembles all newly engraved in their original keys for voice and piano a biography of Gilbert & Sullivan a plot synopsis for each show and Gilbert's own illustrations of characters.

Choral Part-It was H.M.S. Pinafore that really established Gilbert and Sullivan in British comic theatre. This edition is the vocal score for the chorus which has been skillfully adapted by M.J. Arnold for 2pt chorus.