Opera
Jun 11, 2020
4 minutes
Cellier • E Ford • Sullivan
Cellier: Captain Billy; E Ford: Mr Jericho; Sullivan: Haddon Hall Henry Waddington, Ed Lyon, Ben McAteer, Fiona Kimm, Eleanor Dennis, Adrian Thompson, Donald Maxwell, Sarah Tynan, Angela Simkin; BBC Singers; BBC Concert Orchestra/John Andrews
Dutton Epoch 2CDLX7372 (hybrid CD/ SACD) 150:31 mins (2 discs)
Following the break-up of their creative partnership in 1890 – ostensibly due to the shared costs of a carpet in the foyer of the Savoy Theatre – Gilbert and Sullivan went their separate ways for a while. One of the main results of this mutual independence was the latter’s ‘original light English opera’, , setting a text by playwright and librettist Sydney Grundy, which opened
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