Iolanthe
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Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, first performed in 1882. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh of fourteen
Cover of piano transcriptions, 1887
Programme from 1883 during the original run
"She kisses just like other people!"
Jessie Bond as Iolanthe
Arcadia (utopia)
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Arcadia refers to a vision of the pastoral and harmony with nature. The term is derived from the Greek province of the same name which dates to antiquity; the province's mountainous topography and spa
Iolanthe
…the opera, the fairy Iolanthe has been banished from fairyland because she married a mortal; this is forbidden by fairy law. Her son, Strephon, is an Arcadian shepherd who wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. All the members of the House of Peers also want to marry Phyllis. When Phyllis sees Strephon…
Thomas Cole's The Arcadian or Pastoral State, 1834
Urpo Tikka's etching Afternoon at Arcadia, 1995
Friedrich August von Kaulbach's In Arcadia
Thomas Eakins's Arcadia