Ruddigore
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Ruddigore; or, The Witch's Curse, originally called Ruddygore, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy Operas and the tenth of
Amédée Forestier's illustration of scenes in The Illustrated London News, before the opera's name change
Richard, Rose and Robin
Durward Lely as Dauntless
Henry Lytton as Sir Ruthven
Gilbert and Sullivan
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Gilbert and Sullivan were a Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan. The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, o
Ruddigore
…with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy Operas and the tenth of fourteen comic operas written together by Gilbert and Sullivan. It was first performed by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy Theatre in London on 22 January 1887. The first night was not altogether a…
W. S. Gilbert
Arthur Sullivan
One of Gilbert's illustrations for his Bab Ballad "Gentle Alice Brown"
Poster for Ages Ago, during a rehearsal for which Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to Sullivan