Ruddygore Or, The Bruja’s Curse W.S. Gilbert (Libretto) & Arthur Sullivan (Score) Adapted by David Euresti Lamplighters Musical Theatre The Company that for seventy-one years has entertained Bay Area audiences with its Gilbert and Sullivan fare has taken one of the pair’s Victorian parodies of the English, nineteenth-century melodrama, Ruddygore, and married it … [Read more...] about Ruddygorre Or, The Bruja’s Curse
Gilbert and Sullivan
Celebrating 150 Years of Gilbert and Sullivan! A Sesquicentennial Soiree of Scenes
Celebrating 150 Years of Gilbert and Sullivan! A Sesquicentennial Soiree of Scenes Lamplighters Music Theatre W.S. Gilbert (Lyrics); Arthur Sullivan (Music) With a triumphant heralding of opening notes emerging from an orchestra pit that has been empty during two years of COVID, Lamplighters Music Theatre returns with glorious flair just in time to celebrate … [Read more...] about Celebrating 150 Years of Gilbert and Sullivan! A Sesquicentennial Soiree of Scenes
“The Gondoliers, or The King of Barataria”
The Gondoliers or, The King of BaratariaWilliam S. Gilbert (Lyrics); Arthur Sullivan (Music)Lamplighters Music TheatreMichael Desnoyers & Samuel RabinowitzAs the orchestra’s “Overture” spreads notes that prance in joyful processions up and down hills and valleys of light-hearted scales, toes tap and heads nod with the beat. Beaming smiles throughout the audience … [Read more...] about “The Gondoliers, or The King of Barataria”
“Patience”
PatienceWilliam S. Gilbert (Libretto) & Arthur Sullivan (Music)Lamplighters Music TheatreJennifer Mitchell & F. Lawrence EwingThose master geniuses of satire, rhyming lyrics, and operatic melodies -- William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan – primed their pens and aimed their alliterative arrows at a target too conceited and flamboyant for them to ignore in the 1880s of … [Read more...] about “Patience”
“The Grand Duke, or The Statutory Duel”
“The Grand Duke, or The Statutory Duel”William S. Gilbert (Lyrics) and Arthur Sullivan (Music)Lamplighters Musical TheatreLittle wonder that Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Grand Duke, or the Statutory Duel has been rarely produced since its premiere in 1896 at the Savory Opera. This final and least successful collaboration by the famed duo pushes three hours in length; has an … [Read more...] about “The Grand Duke, or The Statutory Duel”