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I Came Across A Utube Clip Of The Late...
... Jonathan Miller talking about the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.
He didn't think much of them apart from The Mikado.
Was he setting the bar too high? I don't suppose they thought themselves in the same league as Shakespeare.
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Monteverdi did the first opera 1598 - Masques, were [art of the downfall of Charles I as they were intended as spectacle, had a few words and involved the King and Queen mincing around in expensive cozzies - he borrowed lulu to put them on ( the masque not the cozzie)
G and S is NOT opera - - operetta. The words are spoken rather than sung in recitative ( yes that is ressit-tat-teev) - even stuff like " do you want a flat white?" " yes please"
He also writes in forms that opera do NOT have - there is a spoof going the rounds in G+S style, a patter song. these were very popular in Music Halls, 1800-1900 ( I am the model of a modern major general)
Music Hall songs ( 3 mins) cd if the audience were charmed, last up to 15 mins, along with dialog - ALbert Finney reconstructs one, as his g-f was a music hall arteest.
Mikado, three little girls was based on a 17 syllable haiku but They werent looked on as cultural leaders
So did I, Canary, and very good he was too. We used to get G&S on TV and one point.. I remember Joan Sims as The Fairy Queen in Iolanthe as a starter. They hammed up the already comic operettas. Brill. I wish the Beeb would repeat them (I think they were on the Beeb) instead of endless antique repeats.
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