Salt Marsh Opera at La Grua: Guild Lecture on The Pirates of Penzance, with James Kuslan
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Join The Guild of Salt Marsh Opera for a special talk with James Kuslan! The Gilbert and Sullivan operettas are unique in the Anglosphere for the often exalted music of Sullivan
Event Details
Join The Guild of Salt Marsh Opera for a special talk with James Kuslan!
The Gilbert and Sullivan operettas are unique in the Anglosphere for the often exalted music of Sullivan and the wit of Gilbert’s dialogue whose DNA indicates Restoration comedy paternity. The Pirates of Penzance is not the most musically profound of the Savoy operettas. Neither is it Gilbert’s wittiest libretto. What Pirates is is a masterpiece of a particularly English kind of silliness which sends up the conventions of grand opera while indulging itself in them at the same time.
Please note, this event is hosted by Salt Marsh Opera. For information or questions, please visit Salt Marsh Opera.