The English playwright and poet Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) collaborated with Sir Arthur Sullivan to create a famous series of comic operas. William Gilbert was born in London, the son of a retired naval surgeon who became a prolific...

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company is touring several productions of certain works of Gilbert and Sullivan in commemoration of the 150th anniversary Arthur Sullivan's birth. Evidence suggests that Arthur Sullivan desired highbrow success, but continued to write light opera with Gilbert to make money....

Perhaps it is time to reconsider describing two of the most important English creative personalities of the nineteenth century as "Gilbert and Sullivan." Such a shibboleth may simplify the task of categorization, but it does grave injustice to the composer and especially the...