Description
Gilbert's verses for Sullivan's music are the most fastidiously turned and inventively rhymed in all lyric comedy. As the Savoy Operas enter their second century on a swell of renewed popularity, Gilbert's reputation as the supreme wordsmith of light opera remains secure.
Complete and authentic, these are the librettos on which modern performances and recordings are based. Scattered among the songs are over seventy of the amusing, quirky pictures Gilbert drew to illustrate them. A chronology prepared for this edition sketches the authors' lives and careers. This is a book that no lover of Gilbert and Sullivan, musical comedy, or indeed the English theater will want to be without.
Author: William Schwenck Gilbert, Arthur Seymour Sullivan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/17/1997
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.50w x 1.19d
ISBN13: 9780393316889
ISBN10: 0393316882
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | American | General
- Drama | Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Music | Genres & Styles | Opera
Complete and authentic, these are the librettos on which modern performances and recordings are based. Scattered among the songs are over seventy of the amusing, quirky pictures Gilbert drew to illustrate them. A chronology prepared for this edition sketches the authors' lives and careers. This is a book that no lover of Gilbert and Sullivan, musical comedy, or indeed the English theater will want to be without.
Author: William Schwenck Gilbert, Arthur Seymour Sullivan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/17/1997
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.50w x 1.19d
ISBN13: 9780393316889
ISBN10: 0393316882
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | American | General
- Drama | Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Music | Genres & Styles | Opera