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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 fourteen comic operas written together by Gilbert and Sullivan.
"Ruddigore, or The Witch's Curse" was the 10th collaboration between Gilbert and Sullivan. The "supernatural opera" opened on January 21, 1887 at the Savoy Theatre and ran for 288 performances. It was not revived until 1920 when it was substantially cut and provided with a new overture arranged by Geoffrey Toye.
May 22, 2020 · The Ohio Light Opera is proud to initiate its 2020 Virtual Summer Festival with a complete video recording of its 2015 production of a Gilbert and Sullivan work that was totally ignored for ...
In 1966 the BBC recorded and broadcast the complete extant operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. In the main, each role was performed by two artists - a singer and...
Ruddigore. A witch’s curse, a thwarted courtship, an assumed identity, a ghostly chorus and the irksome business of committing daily acts of wickedness. With marvellous music from Sullivan, and Gilbert’s most witty and wild characters lampooning etiquette books, melodrama and the Victorian obsession with the supernatural, don’t miss this ...
Ruddigore; or, The Witch's Curse is a two-act operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan. It was premiered by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company on 22 January 1887 at the Savoy Theatre in London, England. It ran for 288 performances over 8 months. It is the tenth of the fourteen operettas written by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Ruddigore was revived at the Prince's Theatre in October, 1921 and again in February, 1924 and is now very popular; it is one of the regular series of the Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire. Gilbert himself included Ruddigore among his three favourites; the other
Apr 29, 2022 · Ruddigore, by Gilbert and Sullivan, Operetta. A complete performance of the famous Savoy operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan. 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.
Round the walls are full-length portraits of the Baronets of Ruddigore from the times of James I — the first being that of Sir Rupert, alluded to in the legend: the last, that of the latest deceased Baronet, Sir Roderic.
Up at Ruddigore Castle, Robin, now in proper character as Sir Ruthven, is not enjoying his new role, because the crimes he commits, such as forging his own will, do not pass muster with his ancestors, who, led by Sir Roderic, emerge from their portraits at regular intervals in spectral form.
