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    In 1866 Sullivan composed a one-act comic opera, Cox and Box, which is still widely performed. He wrote his first opera with W. S. Gilbert, Thespis,...
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    H.M.S. Pinafore (category Operas by Gilbert and Sullivan)
    Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London on 25 May 1878...
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  • and Sullivan) Iolanthe, Iolanthe (Gilbert and Sullivan) Mad Margaret, Ruddigore (Gilbert and Sullivan) Melissa, Princess Ida (Gilbert and Sullivan) Pitti-Sing...
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    Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations. It opened...
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    The Pirates of Penzance (category Operas by Gilbert and Sullivan)
    Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Its official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in...
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    D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (category Gilbert and Sullivan performing groups)
    British light opera company that, from the 1870s until 1982, staged Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas nearly year-round in the UK and sometimes toured in...
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    Iolanthe (category Operas by Gilbert and Sullivan)
    (/aɪ.oʊˈlænθiː/) is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, first performed in 1882. It is one of the Savoy operas...
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  • Trial by Jury (Gilbert and Sullivan) Alexis, The Sorcerer (Gilbert and Sullivan) Ralph Rackstraw H.M.S. Pinafore (Gilbert and Sullivan) Frederic, The...
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    Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette...
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    Opera Company. Reed has been called "the last great exponent" of the Gilbert and Sullivan comedy roles. The son of a butcher from County Durham, Reed began...
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