Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan

The Mikado or The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Available here is the Vocal Score for the Opera.

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.

Gilbert And Sullivan's Patience opened April 23 1881 at the Opera Comique and ran for 578 performances at both the Opera Comique and Savoy Theatres. Full vocal score with piano 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.

One of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular operettas has been wonderfully adapted and arranged here for a classroom cantata by M.J. Arnold. This musical is full of the same lively and colourful characters including the pirates of course! but has been carefully edited and condensed for young performers. There are two action packed acts with 16 favourite solos and choruses with dialogue and suggestions for performance.