Princess Ida
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Princess Ida; or, Castle Adamant is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was their eighth operatic collaboration of fourteen; the next was The Mikado. Prince
"Gently, gently": Hilarion, Cyril, and Florian break into Castle Adamant: cover of 1884 souvenir programme by Alice Havers
Brandram as Blanche
In armour: Costume design for Arac, Guron and Scynthius by Wilhelm, 1884
Out of armour: Guron (Warwick Gray), Arac (Richard Temple) and Scynthius (William Lugg), 1884
Topsy-Turvy
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Topsy-Turvy is a 1999 British musical period drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, starring Jim Broadbent as W. S. Gilbert and Allan Corduner as Sir Arthur Sullivan, along with Timothy Spall,
Princess Ida
…before the next Savoy opera was ready to open. Princess Ida was not revived in London until 1919. Some of these events are dramatised in the 1999 film Topsy-Turvy. The opera satirizes feminism, women's education and Darwinian evolution, all of which were controversial topics in conservative Victorian England. In…
Theatrical release poster
Fanny Ronalds