Latest posts tagged with #WSGilbert on Bluesky
🎭#OTD in #Theatre #History 14 March 1885, #GilbertAndSullivan's smash hit two-act comic #opera THE MIKADO premiered at the #SavoyTheatre in London. The 9th of their 14 collaborations, #ArthurSullivan wrote the music, #WSGilbert the libretto. It ran for 672 performances.
Oh, better far to live and die
Under the brave black flag I fly...
🎭 #OTD in #Theatre 31 Dec 1879, the two act comic #opera
"The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty", music by #ArthurSullivan and libretto by #WSGilbert, premiered at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York.
📆December 7, 1889 W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera “The Gondoliers” premieres at the #SavoyTheatre, #London
#Opera #TheGondoliers #Composer #WSGilbert #Dramatist #ArthurSullivan
#MusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic
#ClassicalMusicHistory
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #MusicMap
Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert, Philharmonia Orchestra & Charles Mackerras:
🎵 The Mikado - Overture
#BBCRadio3 #ArthurSullivan #WSGilbert #PhilharmoniaOrchestra #CharlesMackerras
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #MusicMap
W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan & Lesley Garrett:
🎵 Aria: The Sun Whose Rays
#BBCRadio3 #WSGilbert #ArthurSullivan #LesleyGarrett
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #WordsAndMusic
Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert & The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company:
🎵 We Sail the Ocean Blue
#BBCRadio3 #ArthurSullivan #WSGilbert #TheDOylyCarteOperaCompany
#OnThisDay in 1911, #WSGilbert, English #dramatist, poet librettist remembered for his comic operas with Arthur Sullivan (The Pirates of Penzance; H.M.S. Pinafore; The Mikado), died of a #heartattack at 74.
#RIP ༉‧₊˚🕯️🖤❀༉‧₊˚.
"It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs."
✒️ #WSGilbert, English dramatist, poet, and librettist, remembered for his comic operas with #ArthurSullivan (The Pirates of Penzance; H.M.S.Pinafore; The Mikdao), #DOTD 29 May 1911. #Opera #Theatre
#OTD #TDIH #May29, 1911: #RIP #WSGilbert. #GilbertAndSullivan! #SavoyOperas #ComicOperas #Music #Librettists #Poets #Dramatists #Illustrators #MusicSky
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#OTD #TDIH #May29, 1911: #RIP #WSGilbert. #GilbertAndSullivan! #SavoyOperas #ComicOperas #Music #Librettists #Poets #Dramatists #Illustrators #MusicSky
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#OTD #TDIH #May29, 1911: #RIP #WSGilbert. #GilbertAndSullivan! #SavoyOperas #ComicOperas #Music #Librettists #Poets #Dramatists #Illustrators #MusicSky
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#OnThisDay in 1881, #WSGilbert and #ArthurSullivan's comic opera "Patience" premieres at The Opera Comique, London.
🎭#OTD in #Theatre #History 14 March 1885, #GilbertAndSullivan's smash hit two-act comic #opera THE MIKADO premiered at the #SavoyTheatre in London. The 9th of their 14 collaborations, #ArthurSullivan wrote the music, #WSGilbert the libretto. It ran for 672 performances.
Oh, better far to live and die
Under the brave black flag I fly...
🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 31 Dec 1879, the two act comic #opera
"The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty", music by #ArthurSullivan and libretto by #WSGilbert, premiered at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York.
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBC Radio 3's #EssentialClassics
Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert, Regina Hanley, New D'Oyly Carte Opera & John Pryce-Jones:
🎵 When a Merry Maiden Marries (The Gondoliers)
#BBCRadio3 #ArthurSullivan #WSGilbert #ReginaHanley #NewDOylyCarteOpera #JohnPryceJones
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBC Radio 3's #InTune
Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert, Thomas Allen, Welsh National Opera Orchestra & Charles Mackerras:
🎵 Fair moon to thee I sing (H.M.S. Pinafore)
#BBCRadio3 #ArthurSullivan #WSGilbert #ThomasAllen #WelshNationalOperaOrchestra #CharlesMackerras
