Opera North make a welcome return to the Grand Opera House in 2012 with their acclaimed production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore. Sir Despard Murgatroyd is a man under pressure. He has inherited ...

'It's like Marmite. You either love it or you hate it." I am told this at least three times during the couple of days I spend with ­Opera North at Leeds Grand theatre, where they are rehearsing ...

BWW Q&A: Kimberly Christie on RUDDIGORE at Young Victorian Theatre Company by Joshua Wright - Jul 1, 2024 Soprano, Kimberly Christie, is a dynamic and versatile singer, equally skilled in opera, ...

It’s a stretch to make this slight 19th-century satire speak to a modern audience, and tremendous singing is not enough to make it do so here It’s now most of a theatre-going lifetime since Gilbert ...

Sarah Caldwell Smith as Rose Maybud and Daniel Greenwood as Richard Dauntless — sing “Happily coupled are we” in Ruddigore. (Photo: David Sigafoose.) There’s bad acting and then there’s bad acting!

An auditorium packed with an audience of all ages was crackling with anticipation before Opera North’s new production of Ruddigore. One of Gilbert & Sullivan’s lesser-known operettas was receiving its ...

The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players return to City Center for a ten-performance stint of four operettas, comprising the so-called big three Pinafore,” “Pirates” and “Mikado” plus “Ruddigore.” The ...

Davies’s shrewdest move is to shift Gilbert’s creaky satire on the excesses of Victorian melodrama forward to the 1920s, a period now more closely associated with the genre – think silent cinema, big ...

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This off-the-wall, unexpected production from Skylight Music Theatre and Milwaukee Opera Theatre is the best thing that's happened to a silly Gilbert and Sullivan opera since talkies. On opening night ...