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
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."
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
The Grand Duke
…men never worked together again. In recent decades, the opera has been revived professionally, first in the US and then in the UK. In The Grand Duke, Gilbert and Sullivan come full circle, back to the theme of their first collaboration, Thespis: a troupe of actors taking political power. The plot hinges on the…
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