Duke of Plaza Toro 3 Gondoliers Gilbert Sullivan Cigarette 1927 Imperial Tobacco For Sale

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Duke of Plaza Toro 3 Gondoliers Gilbert Sullivan Cigarette 1927 Imperial Tobacco:
$32.39

Gilbert Sullivan Cigarette Tobacco Card issued in 1927 by John Player & sons 2nd Series. Branch of the imperial tobacco company; of Great Britain & Ireland LTD. Card measure: 1-3/8” x 2-5/8”

These cards feature excellent illustration of characters from various works by Gilbert & Sullivan, and the back of each card have descriptive text.

Gilbert and Sullivan was a Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), who jointly created fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado are among the best known.

Gilbert, who wrote the libretti for these operas, created fanciful "topsy-turvy" worlds where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion; fairies rub elbows with British lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates emerge as noblemen who have gone astray. Sullivan, six years Gilbert's junior, composed the music, contributing memorable melodies that could convey both humour and pathos.

Their operas have enjoyed broad and enduring international success and are still performed frequently throughout the English-speaking world. Gilbert and Sullivan introduced innovations in content and form that directly influenced the development of musical theatre through the 20th century. The operas have also influenced political discourse, literature, film and television and have been widely parodied and pastiched by humorists.

The producer Richard D'Oyly Carte brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and nurtured their collaboration. He built the Savoy Theatre in 1881 to present their joint works (which came to be known as the Savoy Operas) and founded the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, which performed and promoted Gilbert and Sullivan's works for over a century.

In popular culture

Gilbert adapted the stories of H.M.S. Pinafore and The Mikado into children's books called The Pinafore Picture Book and The Story of The Mikado giving, in some cases, backstory that is not found in the librettos. Many other children's books have since been written retelling the stories of the operas or adapting characters or events from them. In the 19th century, the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan songs and music were adapted as dance pieces.

Many musical theatre and film adaptations of the operas have been produced, including the following:

The Swing Mikado (1938; Chicago – all-black cast)

The Hot Mikado (1939) and Hot Mikado (1986)

The Jazz Mikado (1927, Berlin)

Hollywood Pinafore (1945)

The Cool Mikado (1962 film)

The Black Mikado (1975)

Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done (1975 animated film)

The Pirate Movie (1982 film)

The Ratepayers' Iolanthe (1984; Olivier Award-winning musical) adapted by Ned Sherrin and Alistair Beaton

The Metropolitan Mikado (political satire adapted by Sherrin and Beaton, first performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall (1985) starring Louise Gold, Simon Butteriss, Rosemary Ashe, Robert Meadmore and Martin Smith)

Di Yam Gazlonim by Al Grand (1986; a Yiddish adaptation of Pirates; a New York production was nominated for a 2007 Drama Desk Award)[188]

Pinafore! (A Saucy, Sexy, Ship-Shape New Musical) (adapted by Mark Savage, first performed at the Celebration Theater in Los Angeles, California in 2001; only one character is female, and all but one of the male characters are gay.[189]

Gondoliers: A Mafia-themed adaptation of the opera, broadly rewritten by John Doyle and orchestrated and arranged Sarah Travis, was given at the Watermill Theatre and transferred to the Apollo Theatre in the West End in 2001. The production used Doyle's signature conceit of the actors playing their own orchestra instruments.[190]

Parson's Pirates by Opera della Luna (2002)

The Ghosts of Ruddigore by Opera della Luna (2003)

Pinafore Swing, Watermill Theatre (2004: another Doyle adaptation in which the actors double as the orchestra)

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