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Trial by Jury
Can you sue someone for breaking off an engagement? In Gilbert and Sullivan’s courtroom farce Trial...
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The Grand Duke
The Grand Duke was the fourteenth and final Savoy Opera written by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan....
Princess Ida
A hilarious twist on a traditional medieval fairy tale, Princess Ida tells the tale of a Princess, w...
Die Csárdásfürstin
Young Edwin, son and heir to Prince Lippert-Weylersheim, has fallen deeply in love with Sylva Varesc...
The Pirates of Penzance JR
Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular show, The Pirates of Penzance, is a rollicking, delightfully fun...
Bitter Sweet
Set in 19th and 20th Century England and Austria-Hungary, the story revolves around a young woman, S...
Das Land des Lächelns
Lisa has grown tired of the endless frivolity of dances and parties, and of gifts and flirting from...
Der Zigeunerbaron
Sándor Barinkay has returned home to his family estate after spending his life working as an animal...
Im Weissen Rössl
Leopold, the head waiter at The White Horse Inn is stressed. It is high season for the hotel, and he...
Let 'Em Eat Cake
Let’Em Eat Cake is the sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical but it did not achieve the same...
Ludlow Ladd
Ludlow Ladd is an all-rhymed operetta that unfolds through Christmas carols. It is a prequel to th...
Paul Bunyan
The opera focuses on a group of lumberjacks in early America. The men, brought in from countries ar...
