Thank you, I love Princess Ida's music,it's a Sullivan gem, I would rather listen to Ida 10 times than listen to Pirates 1 time
@tallpojjy
3 жыл бұрын
I adore this, Valerie Masterson is fantastic as Ida. Thank you for posting it.
@richardallen3810
3 жыл бұрын
Critics all agreed in 1884, this Sullivan's best score to date. He worked slavishly perfecting it until dress rehearsal ended at 2:30 am the day before the premiere. He was so I'll and in pain his doctor gave him morphia and Sullivan dragged himself to the Savoy to conduct as they held the curtain till 8:30 pm . Ida ended with tumultuous applause and he wrote in his diary what a great success it was.
@webrarian
3 жыл бұрын
Fourteen years on, Sullivan was quoted in the 'Musical Times' as saying “I’m always an ill man now, my boy, but I’m coming to hear your music tonight even if I have to be carried”. He was talking to Coleridge-Taylor about the first (semi-private) performance of "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast". I think it gives you an idea of how Sullivan's dealt with his chronic pain and chronic illness. Gilbert was lucky - he could put his deepest feelings into words, but Sullivan had to use his music for that, and - as with Elgar - many people just took it at face value.
@richardallen3810
3 жыл бұрын
@@webrarian it's written that S. was the only person in the world who attended the first nights of all 14 operas from overture to final curtain.
@webrarian
3 жыл бұрын
@@richardallen3810 While Gilbert paced outside on the Embankment. Have you seen "The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan"?
@richardallen3810
3 жыл бұрын
@@webrarian Certainly, great film. Gilbert did not leave the Savoy on Ida's opening to take his customary walk, but stayed in the green room reading the newspaper for fear that at any moment Sullivan would collapse. In fact he did faint at the final curtain call it is written.
@herbchilds1512
11 ай бұрын
"Expressive glances / Shall be our lances And pops of sillery / Our light artillery ..." Then there's King Gama. 'Yet everybody thinks I'm such a disagreeable man ... and I can't think why!" The world is but a broken toy. Two hours of supremely silly, sophisticated fun. Seldom seen or heard, such a pity!
@webrarian
11 ай бұрын
There's a 1910 on here of the original King Gama, Rutland Barrington. Whether he did with Gilbert's agreement (G was still alive in 1910) but he leaves you in no doubt at all that he DOES know why. I last saw it on stage at Wimbledon Theatre with the D'Oyly Carte using their 1954 sets. That would have been in 1974 or 1975. I do wonder if the lack of good, professional performances hasn't helped 'Ida'. Three acts, that music and dialogue and those sets are never going to show her off to her best advantage in amateur performances.
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