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Performance TitleGilbert and Sullivan Gala, in aid of the British Heart Foundation
Performance Date12 May 2013
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:32
Main PerformersDaisy Brown,
Katie Slater,
Nicholas Scott,
Simon Butteriss,
Leon Berger - vocals
Orchestra or BandEnglish Festival Orchestra
ChoirsThe Really Big Chorus
ConductorsBrian Kay
Set List'Overture' and 'For the Merriest Fellows We Are' from The Gondoliers',
'Over the Bright Blue Sea', 'Sir Joseph's Barge is Seen', 'The Hours Creep On Apace', 'Never Mind the Why and Wherefore', from HMS Pinafore,
'Entrance and March of the Peers', 'Nightmare Song', 'He Loves', 'With Strephon for Your Foe' from Iolanthe,
'Climbing Over Rocky Mountain', 'With Cat Like Thread', 'When the Foeman Bares His Steel' from The Pirates of Penzance
INTERVAL
'Overture' from The Yeoman of the Guard,
'If You Want To Know Who We Are', 'Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day', 'Behold the Lord High Executioner', 'As Some Day it May Happen', 'I Am So Proud', from The Mikado,
'Entrance of the Court and Drawing Room Music', 'Eagle High' from Utopia Ltd,
'List and Learn', We're Called Gondolieri', 'Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes', Dance a Cahucha', Once More Gondolierei' from The Gondoliers
Performance NotesSomething completely different! Join us at the Royal Albert Hall for an evening about as far removed - chorally speaking - from oratorio as you can get: the topsyturvy world of Gilbert & Sullivan. Gilbert’s wit seems not to age at all, and Sullivan’s music sparkles in response. We have programmed 14 of the bestknown choruses, and will intersperse these with solo and ensemble numbers from a team of accomplished young 20th-century Savoyards, crowned with the comic genius of Simon Butteriss (‘surely the leading comic baritone of his generation’).

The thirteen Savoy Operas, named after the theatre where they were premiered in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, are the result of the collaborative genius of Sir William Schwenk Gilbert and Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan. The partnership between these men produced a flow of delightfully witty comic operas, very lucrative both for them and for the impresario who commissioned the works, Richard D’Oyly Carte. Gilbert’s incredible storylines, involving mistaken identities, fairies, pirates, peers of the realm and improbable twists to bring the stories to their conclusion, struck a chord with the rather serious young composer, who responded with sparkling music which perfectly complemented the text.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/2013/35)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/3Pr3my34xoeU
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2013/35Gilbert and Sullivan Gala in aid of the British Heart Foundation12 May 2013
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work9024Gilbert and Sullivan Gala, in aid of the British Heart Foundation1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/776The Really Big Chorus; 1974-; British choral society
DS/UK/3298Monro; Don (fl 1974-); Canadian-born British founder of The Really Big Chorus
DS/UK/873English Festival Orchestra; 1984 -; English orchestra
DS/UK/872Kay; Brian (fl 2012); English radio presenter, conductor, singer
DS/UK/5808Brown; Daisy (fl 2013); British soprano
DS/UK/5809Slater; Katie (fl 2013); British mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/5810Scott; Nicholas (fl 2013); English tenor
DS/UK/1447Butteriss; Simon (fl 2010); English baritone
DS/UK/5811Berger; Leon (fl 2000-2013); British baritone, author
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