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The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan provides the complete text of all the Gilbert & Sullivan operas which are still performed today, together with extensive annotations covering 'lost' songs, alterations and additions, obscure allusions, production points, and comments of interest. Each opera has an introduction which places it in its context, and a potted history of performances up to the present. No other book provides such extensive commentary on the texts of the Savoy Opera nor such a source of innocent merriment to fans of the incomparable Victorian duo. For each opera, there is a short introduction describing how the work came to be written, and giving its performance history. The text, including stage directions, is given on the right-hand page, and on the left (keyed in by line numbers) are notes. These give such information as the identity of a real-life person appearing or mentioned as a character, wordings that were different in the original edition (the one sent to the Lord Chamberlain for licensing), changes made for the first American performance, glosses on technical terms (e.g. legal terms), literary references, cross-references to similar items in other Savoy operas, comments from first-night critics, and many other things
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This book includes the complete text of all the operas which are still performed today, together with extensive annotations covering lost songs, alterations and additions, obscure allusions, production points, and comments of interest; each opera has an introduction that places it in its context and gives a history of performances up to the present (laminated cover illustrated with costumes from the operas, very slight edge wear on rear cover, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; a large, heavy volume, over 1200 pages). 
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Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 1197 p. Audience: General/trade. 
(1, 214) this volume, now available in paperback, provides the complete text of all the gilbert & sullivan operas (including the rarities the grand duke and utopia limited), together with extensive notes covering 'lost' songs and dialogue, contemporary references, production details, and interesting and amusing anecdotes. (Paperback) 
0198167105 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. 
Introduced and Edited by Ian Bradley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Later printing. Gilbert and Sullivan, librettist and composer, were classically Victorian gentlemen whose comic operas for the Savoy Theater under impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte have endured down to the present day despite the disappearance of the British imperial world which they lampooned. Theirs was a happy combination of Sullivan's cheerily catchy tunes and Gilbert's witty lyrics which captured the comedy of universal human nature. Ian Bradley, annotator of an earlier Gilbert and Sullivan collection, completes and updates the record with the inclusion here of the last collaborations of the two, and new introductions to the operettas that reflect modern interpretations. A near fine copy in a bright and glossy dust jacket. 
Very Good in Very Good jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 411-418 slightly creased, interior otherwise unmarked. Very light shelfwear to edges and corners. 
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The comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan are a performing arts phenomenon. Wildly popular when first produced, they are if anything even more popular today. The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan provides the complete text of all thirteen of the G... 