Join us for a fabulous week of fantastic entertainment with all your favourite shows – The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, The Mikado, HMS Pinafore, The Yeomen of the Guard and Patience. And if that wasn’t enough to tempt you into town, there is a lively morning and afternoon fringe programme with fascinating talks and concerts. Enjoy the wit and hilarity…
Since we decided to go ahead with this year’s Festival, the entire team in Halifax have dreamed of the day we would hear the news that we could return to full capacity and share our productions with as many people as possible. We have been selling tickets in Buxton Opera House and Harrogate Royal Hall on a socially distanced plan…
Simon Butteriss It’s 25 years since I first appeared at this joyous festival, masterminded then, as now (in the noble tradition of Glyndebourne and Bayreuth) by the indefatigable energy and vision of one family. I had just been coming to the end of a long tour playing Ko-Ko with D’Oyly Carte in 1996 when the Smiths asked me to play…
At this year’s International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, Rachel directs HMS Pinafore, National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, The Yeomen of the Guard, Forbear! Theatre and The Pirates of Penzance, Forbear! Theatre Rachel Middle is a director, performer and writer living in London who has had a very close relationship with the works of Gilbert and Sullivan since she joined…
Buxton Opera House – Friday 6 August at 2.00 pm Royal Hall, Harrogate – Friday 13 August at 2.00 pm Tickets £25 George Grossmith was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. His performing career spanned more than four decades. Grossmith created a series of nine characters in the original Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas from 1877 to 1889,…
A huge thank you to Festival Photographer Jane Stokes and the National G&S Opera Company principals for taking part in the 2021 Festival Photoshoot. We can’t wait for you to see the fabulous photos that will make up our programmes and adverts. In the meantime, here are some highlights: Patience Simon Butteriss as Bunthorne Matthew Siveter as Grosvenor Tickets: Buxton…
On 64 days to go until the Festival opens in Harrogate! We have some fantastic productions on offer, such as the premiere of Simon Butteriss’s “Diary of a Nobody”. Favourites Charles Court Opera will present Iolanthe and “Express G&S” and of course the National G&S Opera Company will be sailing back into Buxton and Harrogate with 3 brand new productions:…
The International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival receives lifeline grant from Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund The International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival is delighted to have been awarded a grant of £120,000 as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and to ensure they have a sustainable future….
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1. How beautifully blue the sky, The glass is rising very high The weather has been gorgeous, and let’s hope it stays like this. The sun has certainly had his hat on recently, and there is no better place on earth than the UK in summer in the sunshine! 2. Oh, isn’t your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble…