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A Beginner's Guide to Gilbert & Sullivan | The Savoy Operas | Eastbourne G&S
A bitesize rundown of all 14 Gilbert & Sullivan operas. Learn the plots and get a flavour for the music, all in half an hour! DONATE AS YOU FEEL to help keep Gilbert & Sullivan alive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-gilbert-sullivan-alive
Thanks to the following societies for providing footage:
Durham Savoyards - Thespis https://durhamsavoyards.org
PB Theatricals - Princess Ida http://pbtheatricals.co.uk
Milborne Port Opera - Utopia Ltd https://milborneportopera.co.uk
Southampton Operatic Society - The Grand Duke http://sotonopera.org
All other clips by Eastbourne Gilbert & Sullivan Society http://www.EastbourneGandS.com
http://www.Facebook.com/EastbourneGandS
published: 16 Sep 2020
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"A Day At The Savoy Theatre" - March 8, 2020
Presented by Ralph MacPhail, Jr., Artistic Director for Gilbert & Sullivan Austin. MacPhail presents the history of the Savoy Theatre in London where many of the original runs of Gilbert & Sullivan performances were held. Also hear musical numbers from several Savoy operas. Performers include Patricia Combs, Reagan Murdock, Taylor Rawley, Amy Selby, and Julius Young, accompanied by Jeanne Sasaki. Music Director Jeffrey Jones-Ragona. Researched and written by Dave Wieckowski. Songs selected by Janette Jones. This presentation was followed by a performance of "Mr Jericho."
published: 18 Mar 2020
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Major-General's Song from The Pirates of Penzance - live and with lyrics!
The tongue-twisting I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General, performed live during Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, directed by Mike Leigh at English National Opera.
Andrew Shore plays Major General-Stanley, with Joshua Bloom as Pirate King and Claudia Boyle as Mabel in this ENO production by film director Mike Leigh.
About The Pirates of Penzance:
With sentimental pirates, blundering policeman, absurd adventures and improbable paradoxes, The Pirates of Penzance is Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular comic opera.
A swashbuckling farce of brilliant humour and razor-sharp wit, it's chock-full of memorable melodies, including the famous tongue-twisting patter song from the Major-General.
This production was directed by directed by BAFTA-award winner Mike Leigh, wh...
published: 24 Jun 2015
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A British Tar Savoy Opera Co 2011 HMS Pinafore
A Rehersal of 'A British Tar' From HMS Pinafore for April/May 2011 Performances
by the Savoy Opera Company
For more info and dates on performances visit
http://www.savoyoperacompany.com/
published: 18 Apr 2011
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The Humor of Operas- It's Not All in the Words
This is a video of a presentation given by CG&SS's Music Director, Dr. John Dreslin, at the June 2011 International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival held in Gettysburg, PA.
In his presentation, John describes and illustrates many of the musical constructs that Sullivan employed in the G&S shows, and how they play off of and with Gilbert's clever lyrics and match and emphasize the tone, sentiment, or setting of various scenes in those shows. John also offers up interesting parallels, showing how and where these same musical constructs appear in some well know operas and choral works.
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published: 04 Jul 2020
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Iolanthe - 'Fold your flapping wings'
For the intervals of the series of Savoy Operas broadcast in 1989, the BBC commissioned David Mackie to give interval talks about each opera.
The most interesting of these were those where the versions we know today are different from those originally performed. This enabled Mackie to have recordings made of some of the "lost" music.
In the case of 'Iolanthe' we have Stephon's recitative and song sung here by Neil Jenkins.
"My bill has now been read a second time:
His ready vote no member now refuses;
In verity I wield a pow'r sublime,
And one that I can turn to mighty uses!
What joy to carry, in the very teeth
Of ministry, cross-bench and opposition,
Some rather urgent measures quite beneath
The ken of Patriot and Politician!
Fold your flapping wings,
Soaring legislature!
Stoop to lit...
published: 18 Dec 2020
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SAVOY OPERA COMPANY "Trial by Jury"
Taken in 16:9 format but YouTube treats as 4:3 so appears squeezed
SAVOY OPERA COMPANY
www.savoyoperacompany.com
"Trial by Jury" at the Kew Court House
http://www.kewcourthouse.com.au/
published: 16 Oct 2007
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H.M.S. Pinafore (2017)
Clips from the 2017 production of H.M.S. Pinafore by The Savoy Company.
Video Production by O.K. Video, LLC, Wilmington, DE / www.okvideode.com
published: 21 Jan 2018
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HMS Pinafore - 'Here, take her sir'
For the intervals of the series of Savoy Operas broadcast in 1989, the BBC commissioned David Mackie to give interval talks about each opera.
The most interesting of these were those where the versions we know today are different from those originally performed. This enabled Mackie to have recordings made of some of the "lost" music.
In the case of 'HMS Pinafore' we can enjoy Sullivan's original setting of what was later changed to dialogue before the Act Two finale:
Sir Joseph: (Handing Josephine to Ralph.) Here — take her, sir, and mind you treat her kindly.
Ralph and Josephine: Oh bliss, oh rapture!
Captain and Buttercup: Oh rapture, oh bliss!
Sir Joseph: Sad my lot and sorry,
What shall I do? I cannot live alone!
Hebe: Fear nothing — while I live I'll not desert you.
I'll soothe...
published: 18 Dec 2020
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When I was a lad - (From Opera H.M.S. Pinafore)
-"When I was a lad" (John Reed, D'Oyly Carte, 1960).
-H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. H.M.S. Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth operatic collaboration and their first international sensation.
The story takes place aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Pinafore. The captain's daughter, Josephine, is in love with a lower-class sailor, Ralph Rackstraw, although her father intends her to marry Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. She abides by her father's wishes at first, but Sir Joseph's advocacy of t...
published: 12 Jul 2021
30:27
A Beginner's Guide to Gilbert & Sullivan | The Savoy Operas | Eastbourne G&S
A bitesize rundown of all 14 Gilbert & Sullivan operas. Learn the plots and get a flavour for the music, all in half an hour! DONATE AS YOU FEEL to help keep Gi...
A bitesize rundown of all 14 Gilbert & Sullivan operas. Learn the plots and get a flavour for the music, all in half an hour! DONATE AS YOU FEEL to help keep Gilbert & Sullivan alive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-gilbert-sullivan-alive
Thanks to the following societies for providing footage:
Durham Savoyards - Thespis https://durhamsavoyards.org
PB Theatricals - Princess Ida http://pbtheatricals.co.uk
Milborne Port Opera - Utopia Ltd https://milborneportopera.co.uk
Southampton Operatic Society - The Grand Duke http://sotonopera.org
All other clips by Eastbourne Gilbert & Sullivan Society http://www.EastbourneGandS.com
http://www.Facebook.com/EastbourneGandS
https://wn.com/A_Beginner's_Guide_To_Gilbert_Sullivan_|_The_Savoy_Operas_|_Eastbourne_G_S
A bitesize rundown of all 14 Gilbert & Sullivan operas. Learn the plots and get a flavour for the music, all in half an hour! DONATE AS YOU FEEL to help keep Gilbert & Sullivan alive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-gilbert-sullivan-alive
Thanks to the following societies for providing footage:
Durham Savoyards - Thespis https://durhamsavoyards.org
PB Theatricals - Princess Ida http://pbtheatricals.co.uk
Milborne Port Opera - Utopia Ltd https://milborneportopera.co.uk
Southampton Operatic Society - The Grand Duke http://sotonopera.org
All other clips by Eastbourne Gilbert & Sullivan Society http://www.EastbourneGandS.com
http://www.Facebook.com/EastbourneGandS
- published: 16 Sep 2020
- views: 20388
1:03:38
"A Day At The Savoy Theatre" - March 8, 2020
Presented by Ralph MacPhail, Jr., Artistic Director for Gilbert & Sullivan Austin. MacPhail presents the history of the Savoy Theatre in London where many of th...
Presented by Ralph MacPhail, Jr., Artistic Director for Gilbert & Sullivan Austin. MacPhail presents the history of the Savoy Theatre in London where many of the original runs of Gilbert & Sullivan performances were held. Also hear musical numbers from several Savoy operas. Performers include Patricia Combs, Reagan Murdock, Taylor Rawley, Amy Selby, and Julius Young, accompanied by Jeanne Sasaki. Music Director Jeffrey Jones-Ragona. Researched and written by Dave Wieckowski. Songs selected by Janette Jones. This presentation was followed by a performance of "Mr Jericho."
https://wn.com/A_Day_At_The_Savoy_Theatre_March_8,_2020
Presented by Ralph MacPhail, Jr., Artistic Director for Gilbert & Sullivan Austin. MacPhail presents the history of the Savoy Theatre in London where many of the original runs of Gilbert & Sullivan performances were held. Also hear musical numbers from several Savoy operas. Performers include Patricia Combs, Reagan Murdock, Taylor Rawley, Amy Selby, and Julius Young, accompanied by Jeanne Sasaki. Music Director Jeffrey Jones-Ragona. Researched and written by Dave Wieckowski. Songs selected by Janette Jones. This presentation was followed by a performance of "Mr Jericho."
- published: 18 Mar 2020
- views: 565
3:29
Major-General's Song from The Pirates of Penzance - live and with lyrics!
The tongue-twisting I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General, performed live during Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, directed by Mike Leigh ...
The tongue-twisting I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General, performed live during Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, directed by Mike Leigh at English National Opera.
Andrew Shore plays Major General-Stanley, with Joshua Bloom as Pirate King and Claudia Boyle as Mabel in this ENO production by film director Mike Leigh.
About The Pirates of Penzance:
With sentimental pirates, blundering policeman, absurd adventures and improbable paradoxes, The Pirates of Penzance is Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular comic opera.
A swashbuckling farce of brilliant humour and razor-sharp wit, it's chock-full of memorable melodies, including the famous tongue-twisting patter song from the Major-General.
This production was directed by directed by BAFTA-award winner Mike Leigh, who makes his operatic debut.
About English National Opera:
ENO is creating the future of opera: presenting award-winning work that is new, exciting and surprising.
Collaborating with creative talent from across the arts, ENO is based at the London Coliseum and has a world-class reputation for distinctive and highly theatrical productions. This reputation has resulted in many high profile artistic partnerships with opera houses and festivals around the world.
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Keep up to date with the latest from ENO:
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More great opera | http://www.eno.org/
https://wn.com/Major_General's_Song_From_The_Pirates_Of_Penzance_Live_And_With_Lyrics
The tongue-twisting I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General, performed live during Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, directed by Mike Leigh at English National Opera.
Andrew Shore plays Major General-Stanley, with Joshua Bloom as Pirate King and Claudia Boyle as Mabel in this ENO production by film director Mike Leigh.
About The Pirates of Penzance:
With sentimental pirates, blundering policeman, absurd adventures and improbable paradoxes, The Pirates of Penzance is Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular comic opera.
A swashbuckling farce of brilliant humour and razor-sharp wit, it's chock-full of memorable melodies, including the famous tongue-twisting patter song from the Major-General.
This production was directed by directed by BAFTA-award winner Mike Leigh, who makes his operatic debut.
About English National Opera:
ENO is creating the future of opera: presenting award-winning work that is new, exciting and surprising.
Collaborating with creative talent from across the arts, ENO is based at the London Coliseum and has a world-class reputation for distinctive and highly theatrical productions. This reputation has resulted in many high profile artistic partnerships with opera houses and festivals around the world.
Subscribe to ENO and never miss another video: http://goo.gl/ljEMBr
Keep up to date with the latest from ENO:
ENO on YouTube: http://goo.gl/L2ccRh
ENO on Facebook | http://goo.gl/F4vii0
ENO on Twitter | https://twitter.com/e_n_o
ENO on Instagram | http://instagram.com/englishnationalopera
More great opera | http://www.eno.org/
- published: 24 Jun 2015
- views: 1808358
2:08
A British Tar Savoy Opera Co 2011 HMS Pinafore
A Rehersal of 'A British Tar' From HMS Pinafore for April/May 2011 Performances
by the Savoy Opera Company
For more info and dates on performances visit
http://...
A Rehersal of 'A British Tar' From HMS Pinafore for April/May 2011 Performances
by the Savoy Opera Company
For more info and dates on performances visit
http://www.savoyoperacompany.com/
https://wn.com/A_British_Tar_Savoy_Opera_Co_2011_Hms_Pinafore
A Rehersal of 'A British Tar' From HMS Pinafore for April/May 2011 Performances
by the Savoy Opera Company
For more info and dates on performances visit
http://www.savoyoperacompany.com/
- published: 18 Apr 2011
- views: 3251
48:51
The Humor of Operas- It's Not All in the Words
This is a video of a presentation given by CG&SS's Music Director, Dr. John Dreslin, at the June 2011 International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival held in Gettysb...
This is a video of a presentation given by CG&SS's Music Director, Dr. John Dreslin, at the June 2011 International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival held in Gettysburg, PA.
In his presentation, John describes and illustrates many of the musical constructs that Sullivan employed in the G&S shows, and how they play off of and with Gilbert's clever lyrics and match and emphasize the tone, sentiment, or setting of various scenes in those shows. John also offers up interesting parallels, showing how and where these same musical constructs appear in some well know operas and choral works.
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For more information about us and our shows, be sure to visit our web site( http://www.ctgands.org
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)
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https://wn.com/The_Humor_Of_Operas_It's_Not_All_In_The_Words
This is a video of a presentation given by CG&SS's Music Director, Dr. John Dreslin, at the June 2011 International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival held in Gettysburg, PA.
In his presentation, John describes and illustrates many of the musical constructs that Sullivan employed in the G&S shows, and how they play off of and with Gilbert's clever lyrics and match and emphasize the tone, sentiment, or setting of various scenes in those shows. John also offers up interesting parallels, showing how and where these same musical constructs appear in some well know operas and choral works.
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For more information about us and our shows, be sure to visit our web site( http://www.ctgands.org
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- published: 04 Jul 2020
- views: 140
3:46
Iolanthe - 'Fold your flapping wings'
For the intervals of the series of Savoy Operas broadcast in 1989, the BBC commissioned David Mackie to give interval talks about each opera.
The most interest...
For the intervals of the series of Savoy Operas broadcast in 1989, the BBC commissioned David Mackie to give interval talks about each opera.
The most interesting of these were those where the versions we know today are different from those originally performed. This enabled Mackie to have recordings made of some of the "lost" music.
In the case of 'Iolanthe' we have Stephon's recitative and song sung here by Neil Jenkins.
"My bill has now been read a second time:
His ready vote no member now refuses;
In verity I wield a pow'r sublime,
And one that I can turn to mighty uses!
What joy to carry, in the very teeth
Of ministry, cross-bench and opposition,
Some rather urgent measures quite beneath
The ken of Patriot and Politician!
Fold your flapping wings,
Soaring legislature!
Stoop to little things,
Stoop to human nature!
Never need to roam,
Members patriotic,
Let’s begin at home
Crime is no exotic!
Bitter is your bane
Terrible your trials,
Dingy Drury Lane!
Soapless Seven Dials!
Take a tipsy lout,
Gathered from the gutter.
Hustle him about,
Strap him to a shutter.
What am I but he,
Washed at hours stated,
Fed on filagree,
Clothed and educated?
He’s a mark of scorn,
I might be another,
If I had been born
Of a tipsy mother.
Take a wretched thief,
Through the city sneaking.
Pocket handkerchief
Ever, ever seeking.
What is he but I
Robbed of all my chances,
Picking pockets by
Force of circumstances?
I might be as bad,
As unlucky, rather,
If I’d only had
Fagin for a father!"
David Mackie was born in Greenock in 1943 and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and the Universities of Glasgow and Birmingham, before joining the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as repetiteur in 1975.
He was promoted to chorus master and associate musical director in 1976, serving until the closure of the Company in 1982. He has the distinction of conducting the last full performance of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera with the original D'Oyly Carte Opera Company:a matinee performance of H.M.S. Pinafore on February 27, 1982.
Since 1982 he has worked as a freelance accompanist, repetiteur, and conductor. In collaboration with Sir Charles Mackerras he reconstructed Arthur Sullivan's "lost" cello concerto.
He has worked with the London Opera Players, the London Savoyards, and New Sadler's Wells Opera, and has been musical director for many concerts, operas, operettas, and pantomimes. In November 2000 he conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a chorus of 500 in a Royal Albert Hall concert commemorating the centenary of Arthur Sullivan's death.
In 2005, Mackie researched and edited "Arthur Sullivan and The Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain," a volume produced for, and published by, the Royal Society and drawn from the proceedings of the Society's 145th Anniversary Festival Dinner (in 1883) and other papers relating to Sullivan in that organization's archives. More recently, he has chronicled his experiences in the last years of the D'Oyly Carte (1875-82) in a memoir entitled "Nothing Like Work, or Right in the D'Oyly Carte" (Grosvenor House, 2018).
https://wn.com/Iolanthe_'Fold_Your_Flapping_Wings'
For the intervals of the series of Savoy Operas broadcast in 1989, the BBC commissioned David Mackie to give interval talks about each opera.
The most interesting of these were those where the versions we know today are different from those originally performed. This enabled Mackie to have recordings made of some of the "lost" music.
In the case of 'Iolanthe' we have Stephon's recitative and song sung here by Neil Jenkins.
"My bill has now been read a second time:
His ready vote no member now refuses;
In verity I wield a pow'r sublime,
And one that I can turn to mighty uses!
What joy to carry, in the very teeth
Of ministry, cross-bench and opposition,
Some rather urgent measures quite beneath
The ken of Patriot and Politician!
Fold your flapping wings,
Soaring legislature!
Stoop to little things,
Stoop to human nature!
Never need to roam,
Members patriotic,
Let’s begin at home
Crime is no exotic!
Bitter is your bane
Terrible your trials,
Dingy Drury Lane!
Soapless Seven Dials!
Take a tipsy lout,
Gathered from the gutter.
Hustle him about,
Strap him to a shutter.
What am I but he,
Washed at hours stated,
Fed on filagree,
Clothed and educated?
He’s a mark of scorn,
I might be another,
If I had been born
Of a tipsy mother.
Take a wretched thief,
Through the city sneaking.
Pocket handkerchief
Ever, ever seeking.
What is he but I
Robbed of all my chances,
Picking pockets by
Force of circumstances?
I might be as bad,
As unlucky, rather,
If I’d only had
Fagin for a father!"
David Mackie was born in Greenock in 1943 and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and the Universities of Glasgow and Birmingham, before joining the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as repetiteur in 1975.
He was promoted to chorus master and associate musical director in 1976, serving until the closure of the Company in 1982. He has the distinction of conducting the last full performance of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera with the original D'Oyly Carte Opera Company:a matinee performance of H.M.S. Pinafore on February 27, 1982.
Since 1982 he has worked as a freelance accompanist, repetiteur, and conductor. In collaboration with Sir Charles Mackerras he reconstructed Arthur Sullivan's "lost" cello concerto.
He has worked with the London Opera Players, the London Savoyards, and New Sadler's Wells Opera, and has been musical director for many concerts, operas, operettas, and pantomimes. In November 2000 he conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a chorus of 500 in a Royal Albert Hall concert commemorating the centenary of Arthur Sullivan's death.
In 2005, Mackie researched and edited "Arthur Sullivan and The Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain," a volume produced for, and published by, the Royal Society and drawn from the proceedings of the Society's 145th Anniversary Festival Dinner (in 1883) and other papers relating to Sullivan in that organization's archives. More recently, he has chronicled his experiences in the last years of the D'Oyly Carte (1875-82) in a memoir entitled "Nothing Like Work, or Right in the D'Oyly Carte" (Grosvenor House, 2018).
- published: 18 Dec 2020
- views: 1388
8:11
SAVOY OPERA COMPANY "Trial by Jury"
Taken in 16:9 format but YouTube treats as 4:3 so appears squeezed
SAVOY OPERA COMPANY
www.savoyoperacompany.com
"Trial by Jury" at the Kew Court House
h...
Taken in 16:9 format but YouTube treats as 4:3 so appears squeezed
SAVOY OPERA COMPANY
www.savoyoperacompany.com
"Trial by Jury" at the Kew Court House
http://www.kewcourthouse.com.au/
https://wn.com/Savoy_Opera_Company_Trial_By_Jury
Taken in 16:9 format but YouTube treats as 4:3 so appears squeezed
SAVOY OPERA COMPANY
www.savoyoperacompany.com
"Trial by Jury" at the Kew Court House
http://www.kewcourthouse.com.au/
- published: 16 Oct 2007
- views: 11379
6:35
H.M.S. Pinafore (2017)
Clips from the 2017 production of H.M.S. Pinafore by The Savoy Company.
Video Production by O.K. Video, LLC, Wilmington, DE / www.okvideode.com
Clips from the 2017 production of H.M.S. Pinafore by The Savoy Company.
Video Production by O.K. Video, LLC, Wilmington, DE / www.okvideode.com
https://wn.com/H.M.S._Pinafore_(2017)
Clips from the 2017 production of H.M.S. Pinafore by The Savoy Company.
Video Production by O.K. Video, LLC, Wilmington, DE / www.okvideode.com
- published: 21 Jan 2018
- views: 993
1:26
HMS Pinafore - 'Here, take her sir'
For the intervals of the series of Savoy Operas broadcast in 1989, the BBC commissioned David Mackie to give interval talks about each opera.
The most interest...
For the intervals of the series of Savoy Operas broadcast in 1989, the BBC commissioned David Mackie to give interval talks about each opera.
The most interesting of these were those where the versions we know today are different from those originally performed. This enabled Mackie to have recordings made of some of the "lost" music.
In the case of 'HMS Pinafore' we can enjoy Sullivan's original setting of what was later changed to dialogue before the Act Two finale:
Sir Joseph: (Handing Josephine to Ralph.) Here — take her, sir, and mind you treat her kindly.
Ralph and Josephine: Oh bliss, oh rapture!
Captain and Buttercup: Oh rapture, oh bliss!
Sir Joseph: Sad my lot and sorry,
What shall I do? I cannot live alone!
Hebe: Fear nothing — while I live I'll not desert you.
I'll soothe and comfort your declining days.
Sir Joseph: No, don't do that.
Hebe: Yes, indeed I'd rather —
Sir Joseph (resigned):To-morrow morn our vows shall all be plighted,
Three loving pairs on the same day united!
David Mackie was born in Greenock in 1943 and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and the Universities of Glasgow and Birmingham, before joining the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as repetiteur in 1975.
He was promoted to chorus master and associate musical director in 1976, serving until the closure of the Company in 1982. He has the distinction of conducting the last full performance of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera with the original D'Oyly Carte Opera Company:a matinee performance of H.M.S. Pinafore on February 27, 1982.
Since 1982 he has worked as a freelance accompanist, repetiteur, and conductor. In collaboration with Sir Charles Mackerras he reconstructed Arthur Sullivan's "lost" cello concerto.
He has worked with the London Opera Players, the London Savoyards, and New Sadler's Wells Opera, and has been musical director for many concerts, operas, operettas, and pantomimes. In November 2000 he conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a chorus of 500 in a Royal Albert Hall concert commemorating the centenary of Arthur Sullivan's death.
In 2005, Mackie researched and edited "Arthur Sullivan and The Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain," a volume produced for, and published by, the Royal Society and drawn from the proceedings of the Society's 145th Anniversary Festival Dinner (in 1883) and other papers relating to Sullivan in that organization's archives. More recently, he has chronicled his experiences in the last years of the D'Oyly Carte (1875-82) in a memoir entitled "Nothing Like Work, or Right in the D'Oyly Carte" (Grosvenor House, 2018).
https://wn.com/Hms_Pinafore_'Here,_Take_Her_Sir'
For the intervals of the series of Savoy Operas broadcast in 1989, the BBC commissioned David Mackie to give interval talks about each opera.
The most interesting of these were those where the versions we know today are different from those originally performed. This enabled Mackie to have recordings made of some of the "lost" music.
In the case of 'HMS Pinafore' we can enjoy Sullivan's original setting of what was later changed to dialogue before the Act Two finale:
Sir Joseph: (Handing Josephine to Ralph.) Here — take her, sir, and mind you treat her kindly.
Ralph and Josephine: Oh bliss, oh rapture!
Captain and Buttercup: Oh rapture, oh bliss!
Sir Joseph: Sad my lot and sorry,
What shall I do? I cannot live alone!
Hebe: Fear nothing — while I live I'll not desert you.
I'll soothe and comfort your declining days.
Sir Joseph: No, don't do that.
Hebe: Yes, indeed I'd rather —
Sir Joseph (resigned):To-morrow morn our vows shall all be plighted,
Three loving pairs on the same day united!
David Mackie was born in Greenock in 1943 and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and the Universities of Glasgow and Birmingham, before joining the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as repetiteur in 1975.
He was promoted to chorus master and associate musical director in 1976, serving until the closure of the Company in 1982. He has the distinction of conducting the last full performance of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera with the original D'Oyly Carte Opera Company:a matinee performance of H.M.S. Pinafore on February 27, 1982.
Since 1982 he has worked as a freelance accompanist, repetiteur, and conductor. In collaboration with Sir Charles Mackerras he reconstructed Arthur Sullivan's "lost" cello concerto.
He has worked with the London Opera Players, the London Savoyards, and New Sadler's Wells Opera, and has been musical director for many concerts, operas, operettas, and pantomimes. In November 2000 he conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a chorus of 500 in a Royal Albert Hall concert commemorating the centenary of Arthur Sullivan's death.
In 2005, Mackie researched and edited "Arthur Sullivan and The Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain," a volume produced for, and published by, the Royal Society and drawn from the proceedings of the Society's 145th Anniversary Festival Dinner (in 1883) and other papers relating to Sullivan in that organization's archives. More recently, he has chronicled his experiences in the last years of the D'Oyly Carte (1875-82) in a memoir entitled "Nothing Like Work, or Right in the D'Oyly Carte" (Grosvenor House, 2018).
- published: 18 Dec 2020
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When I was a lad - (From Opera H.M.S. Pinafore)
-"When I was a lad" (John Reed, D'Oyly Carte, 1960).
-H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sul...
-"When I was a lad" (John Reed, D'Oyly Carte, 1960).
-H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. H.M.S. Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth operatic collaboration and their first international sensation.
The story takes place aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Pinafore. The captain's daughter, Josephine, is in love with a lower-class sailor, Ralph Rackstraw, although her father intends her to marry Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. She abides by her father's wishes at first, but Sir Joseph's advocacy of the equality of humankind encourages Ralph and Josephine to overturn conventional social order. They declare their love for each other and eventually plan to elope. The Captain discovers this plan, but, as in many of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, a surprise disclosure changes things dramatically near the end of the story.
Drawing on several of his earlier "Bab Ballad" poems, Gilbert imbued this plot with mirth and silliness. The opera's humour focuses on love between members of different social classes and lampoons the British class system in general. Pinafore also pokes good-natured fun at patriotism, party politics, the Royal Navy, and the rise of unqualified people to positions of authority. The title of the piece comically applies the name of a garment for girls and women, a pinafore, to the fearsome symbol of a warship.
Pinafore's extraordinary popularity in Britain, America and elsewhere was followed by the similar success of a series of Gilbert and Sullivan works, including The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Their works, later known as the Savoy operas, dominated the musical stage on both sides of the Atlantic for more than a decade and continue to be performed today. The structure and style of these operas, particularly Pinafore, were much copied and contributed significantly to the development of modern musical theatre.
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-"When I was a lad" (John Reed, D'Oyly Carte, 1960).
-H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. H.M.S. Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth operatic collaboration and their first international sensation.
The story takes place aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Pinafore. The captain's daughter, Josephine, is in love with a lower-class sailor, Ralph Rackstraw, although her father intends her to marry Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. She abides by her father's wishes at first, but Sir Joseph's advocacy of the equality of humankind encourages Ralph and Josephine to overturn conventional social order. They declare their love for each other and eventually plan to elope. The Captain discovers this plan, but, as in many of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, a surprise disclosure changes things dramatically near the end of the story.
Drawing on several of his earlier "Bab Ballad" poems, Gilbert imbued this plot with mirth and silliness. The opera's humour focuses on love between members of different social classes and lampoons the British class system in general. Pinafore also pokes good-natured fun at patriotism, party politics, the Royal Navy, and the rise of unqualified people to positions of authority. The title of the piece comically applies the name of a garment for girls and women, a pinafore, to the fearsome symbol of a warship.
Pinafore's extraordinary popularity in Britain, America and elsewhere was followed by the similar success of a series of Gilbert and Sullivan works, including The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Their works, later known as the Savoy operas, dominated the musical stage on both sides of the Atlantic for more than a decade and continue to be performed today. The structure and style of these operas, particularly Pinafore, were much copied and contributed significantly to the development of modern musical theatre.
- published: 12 Jul 2021
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