The National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company is an English professional repertory company that performs Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas. Founded in 1995 to perform at the International Gilbert an
National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company poster
The Royal Hall, Harrogate, the company's main venue since 2014
Buxton Opera House, site of the festival from 1994 to 2013, is still used by the company to premiere its annual productions.
The Grand Duke
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The Grand Duke; or, The Statutory Duel, is the final Savoy Opera written by librettist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, their fourteenth and last opera together. It premiered at the Savoy T
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…rarely been given a professional staging in Britain over the past century. In 2012 the company mounted the first full-scale professional production of The Grand Duke in Britain since the 19th century, which was one of its four productions that year. Since 2013, the company has given up to 16 performances over the…
An early poster for The Grand Duke
Ilka Pálmay as Julia Jellicoe
Programme from the original production of The Grand Duke
"Ludwig and his Julia are mated."