#WSGilbert

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Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert, Philharmonia Orchestra & Charles Mackerras:
🎵 The Mikado - Overture

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November 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM

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W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan & Lesley Garrett:
🎵 Aria: The Sun Whose Rays

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November 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM

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Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert & The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company:
🎵 We Sail the Ocean Blue

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August 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Pedal/peddle/pedlar/pedaller
Horde/hoard (I blame WSGilbert and Yeomen of the Guard for this one)
August 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
#OnThisDay in 1911, #WSGilbert, English #dramatist, poet librettist remembered for his comic operas with Arthur Sullivan (The Pirates of Penzance; H.M.S. Pinafore; The Mikado), died of a #heartattack at 74.
#RIP ༉‧₊˚🕯️🖤❀༉‧₊˚.
May 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs."

✒️ #WSGilbert, English dramatist, poet, and librettist, remembered for his comic operas with #ArthurSullivan (The Pirates of Penzance; H.M.S.Pinafore; The Mikdao), #DOTD 29 May 1911. #Opera #Theatre
May 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
#OnThisDay in 1881, #WSGilbert and #ArthurSullivan's comic opera "Patience" premieres at The Opera Comique, London.
April 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
🎭#OTD in #Theatre #History 14 March 1885, #GilbertAndSullivan's smash hit two-act comic #opera THE MIKADO premiered at the #SavoyTheatre in London. The 9th of their 14 collaborations, #ArthurSullivan wrote the music, #WSGilbert the libretto. It ran for 672 performances.
March 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDanger
Part of the lake in which WSGilbert drowned.
January 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Oh, better far to live and die
Under the brave black flag I fly...

🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 31 Dec 1879, the two act comic #opera
"The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty", music by #ArthurSullivan and libretto by #WSGilbert, premiered at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York.
December 31, 2024 at 2:32 PM
#OnThisDay in 1836, #WSGilbert, English #dramatist, poet librettist remembered for his comic operas with Arthur Sullivan (The Pirates of Penzance; H.M.S. Pinafore; The Mikdao), born in London (d. 1911). 🪽🥀
#RIP
November 18, 2024 at 11:51 PM

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Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert, Regina Hanley, New D'Oyly Carte Opera & John Pryce-Jones:
🎵 When a Merry Maiden Marries (The Gondoliers)

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September 19, 2024 at 9:32 AM

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Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert, Thomas Allen, Welsh National Opera Orchestra & Charles Mackerras:
🎵 Fair moon to thee I sing (H.M.S. Pinafore)

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September 18, 2024 at 5:29 PM