A Member of the Wedding, Part 1
Operagoers attend very few wedding ceremonies or receptions…onstage, that is. Though many works concern engagement, marriage, or the anticipation of one or the other, a surprising number of the works leave their altars somewhere in the wings. opera• operetta• operas• marriage• wedding
I've Got a Little List
After listening to the Mikado recently for the first time in many years, I was struck by how relevant Gilbert and Sullivan's musical satire is to the current age. I say about the two great pioneers of muscial comedy as people said in the nineteenth century to denote excellence, "Capital!" gilbert and sullivan• arthur sullivan• w.s. gilbert• mikado• satire