Gilbert & Sullivan

This opera opened April 23, 1881 at the Opera Comique and ran for 578 performances at both the Opera Comique and Savoy Theatres. The county dames are in love with two poets while the poets are both in...

As with all the G&S operas, the plot is ludicrous. Yet by behavings if everything were perfectly reasonable, the characters in this satire of the legal system reveal truths about common foibles and fo...