Gilbert & Sullivan - A Motley Pair

Over five 30 minute episodes, produced in 2010 for Sky Arts, internationally renowned G&S performer and authority Simon Butteriss explores the topsy turvy world created by W.S Gilbert and so memorably set to music by Arthur Sullivan, through narration, specially filmed dramatic excerpts and conversations with devotees of G&S.

Contributors to the series include Michael Ball, Germaine Greer, Sir Nicholas Hytner, Dame Felicity Lott, Sir Charles Mackerras, Valerie Masterson and Sir Jonathan Miller. It contains archive extracts from performances at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton as well as over sixty staged extracts performed by well loved G&S stars: Victoria Byron, Bruce Graham, Gareth Jones, Charlotte Page, Jill Pert, Oliver White and, of course, Simon Butteriss himself. They are joined by a specially selected chorus and studio orchestra, conducted by Tony Britten, who also produced and directed the series.


Disc 1: Episode 1: If you want to know who we are / Episode 2: The very models of the modern major musical / Episode 3: Monarchs of all they Savoy / Episode 4: Night after night to the wicked Theayter / Episode 5: Deputy Deities
Disc 2: Bonus Disc: A Salaried Wit – Grossmith, Gilbert and Sullivan

Audio Languages: English

Number of Discs: 2

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