FULL IOLANTHE (Gilbert&Sullivan) Austin 2019 Arthur DiBianca, Sam Johnson, Bethany Ammon, Shelby Schisler
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Iolanthe or, The Peer and the Peri
- Composer: Arthur Sullivan
- Libretto: W. S. Gilbert Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Worley Barton !eater at Brentwood Christian School
- Recorded: June 13-23, 2019
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Arthur DiBianca, Sam Johnson, Dalton Flake, Russell Gregory, Holton Johnson, Bethany Ammon, Shelby Schisler, Corinna Browning, Janette Jones Fleta, Leann Fryer Phyllis, Angela Irving
- Conductor: Jeffrey Jones-Ragona
- Orchestra: Gillman Light Opera Orchestra
- Chorus Master: Andy Fleming
- Choreographer: Ralph MacPhail, Jr.
- Stage Director: Ralph MacPhail, Jr.
- Stage Designer: Ann Marie Gordon
- Costume Designer: Pam Fowler
- Lighting Designer: Jennifer Rogers
Information about the Recording
- Date Published: 2019
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
First performed in 1882, “Iolanthe” is the seventh of fourteen operatic collaborations by Gilbert and Sullivan. It is universally regarded as one of Sir Arthur Sullivan’s most beautiful scores – a high water mark in terms of music, wit, cleverness, and color – with incredible choruses, wonderful solos and orchestration beyond compare. Peers, British noblemen and honorable members of Parliament encounter Peris, lovelorn fairies from a golden glen – a collision of powerful mortals with feet of clay and immortal beings wielding magic wands. The result – havoc is wreaked in the House of Lords!
ACT I
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1. Overture
2. Tripping hither, tripping thither
3. Iolanthe! From thy dark exile thou art summoned!
4. Good morrow, good mother
5. Fare thee well, attractive stranger
6. Good morrow, good lover
7. None shall part us from each other
8. Loudly let the trumpet bray! Tantantara!
9. The law is the true embodiment
10. My well-loved Lord and Guardian dear
11. Nay, tempt me not
12. Spurn not the nobly born
13. My Lords, it may not be
14. When I went to the bar
15. When darkly looms the day (Finale of Act I)
ACT II
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1. When all night long
2. Strephen’s a member of Parliament
3. When Britain really ruled the waves
4. In vain to us you plead
5. Oh, foolish fay
6. Though p’haps I may incur your blame
7. Love, Unrequited robs me of my rest
8. If you go in you’re sure to win
9. If we’ve weak enough to tarry
10. My Lord, a suppliant oft your feet
11. If may not be-for so the fates decide!
12. Soon as we may, all and away! (Finale of Act II)