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The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan

Memorable melodies and fanciful worlds the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan remain as popular today as when they were first performed. This Companion provides a timely guide to the history and development of the collaboration between the two men, including a fresh examination of the many myths and half-truths surrounding their relationship. Written by an international team of specialists, the volume features a personal account from film director Mike Leigh on his connection with the Savoy operas and the creation of his film Topsy-Turvy . Starting with the early history of the operatic stage in Britain, the Companion places the operas in their theatrical and musical context, investigating the amateur performing tradition, providing new perspectives on the famous patter songs and analysing their dramatic and operatic potential. Perfect for enthusiasts, performers and students of Gilbert and Sullivan's enduring work, the book examines their legacy and looks forward to the future.

David Eden is a former Chairman of the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society and is currently editor of its Magazine .

Meinhard Saremba is a freelance author, translator and broadcaster.

The Cambridge Companion to GILBERT AND SULLIVAN

Edited by

David Eden and Meinhard Saremba

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Cambridge University Press

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Cambridge University Press 2009

This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.

First published 2009

Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge

A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data

The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan / edited by David Eden, Meinhard Saremba.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-521-88849-3

1. Sullivan, Arthur, Sir, 18421900. Operas. 2. Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 18361911

Criticism and interpretation. I. Eden, David, 1942 II. Saremba, Meinhard, 1960 III. Title.

ML410.S95C35 2009

782.120922 dc22 2009022104

ISBN 978-0-521-88849-3 hardback

ISBN 978-0-521-71659-8 paperback

Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

Contents

David Eden

William Parry

Benedict Taylor

Meinhard Saremba

Richard Silverman

Horst Dlvers

Laura Kasson Fiss

Michael Beckerman

James Brooks Kuykendall

Martin T. Yates

Mike Leigh

Ian Bradley

Stephanie Pitts

Raymond Knapp

Jana Polianovskaia

David Russell Hulme

Illustrations

Note . While the editors have made every effort, it has not always been possible to identify the ownership of copyright, if any, in Victorian periodicals and other works of similar date.

Contributors

Michael Beckerman is Professor of Music in New York, co-founder and president of the Czechoslovak Music Society and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Music (CISM). His major publications include books on Janek and Dvok.

Ian Bradley has sung Gilbert and Sullivan on the QE2 in mid-Atlantic, with the widow of a British Prime Minister in Oxford Town Hall, with an Anglican bishop on the sacred island of Iona, live on BBC Radio 4 accompanied by Donald Swann and Rolf Harris, in a cellar in Philadelphia and from the pulpits of several churches. A Vice-President of the Sullivan Society and Honorary Life President of the St Andrews University Gilbert and Sullivan Society with whom he has sung several principal bass roles, he is the author of the Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan and Oh Joy! Oh Rapture! The Enduring Phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan as well as over thirty other books on less compelling subjects. He is also Reader in Practical Theology in the School of Divinity and Honorary Church of Scotland chaplain at the University of St Andrews and Associate Minister of the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, St Andrews. He broadcasts frequently on BBC Radio 4.

Horst Dlvers is a retired professor of English Literature at Technische Universitt Berlin. He has published on a wide range of subjects including the Vluspa, an Eddic poem written in Old Norse, Robert Louis Stevenson's narrative art, Walt Whitman's poems as set to music by British composers between 1880 and 1920, and deconstructive positions in literary theory. In 1994, he brought out a monograph on a Victorian picture book, Walter Crane's The Baby's Own Aesop . This he expanded, in 1997, into a study of English fables and parables of the nineteenth century and their illustrations. In 1999, he published a monograph on Jonathan Swift's friend, Dr Thomas Sheridan, and the dunces of Dublin. Since then, he has written about Hubert Parry and Frederick Delius.

David Eden , acknowledged Sullivan scholar, is a founder member of the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society. He has been editor of the Sullivan Society Magazine since its inception, and he has been chairman for a number of years. His publications include Gilbert and Sullivan: The Creative Conflict (1986); W. S. Gilbert: Appearance and Reality (2003) and Sullivan's Ivanhoe (2007). He has also written and edited specialist studies of works by Sullivan: The Chieftain , The Gondoliers , The Grand Duke , Princess Ida , Haddon Hall , Ivanhoe , King Arthur , The Mikado , Ruddigore , The Yeomen of the Guard and others. In addition, he has written sleeve notes for several recordings of Sullivan's works.

Laura Kasson Fiss has an AB in English and Music (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY) and an MA in Text and Book (University of Birmingham, England). She is currently a doctoral student at Indiana University in the English department, with a minor in Victorian Studies. She has presented papers on Charlotte Bront's reading and the work of language in vocal pedagogy, as well as Gilbert and Sullivan. Her research interests include Victorian humour, sound and affect.

David Russell Hulme , musicologist at the University of Aberystwyth (Wales) and conductor, has a life-long association with the Savoy operas. He completed a PhD based on a study of Sullivan's autograph full scores, has published widely on English opera and has conducted the works of Sullivan and Gilbert worldwide for the Carl-Rosa Opera Company.

Raymond Knapp is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity , winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He has also published books on Brahms and Mahler.

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