Whats on guide

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International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival

H A R R O G AT E , AUGUST

ROYAL HALL 08 - 27

from 1994...

...to 2018

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2018

Who are Theatrical Adventures?

They are exactly the same people who organise the annual G&S festival and run the National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company. In a former life Ian, Janet and Neil Smith were all heavily involved in the travel industry organising massive conferences around the world. When G and S enthusiasts suggested they organise a cruise up the Nile some seven years ago they jumped at the opportunity and went on to establish a company which specialises in Gilbert and Sullivan and Operetta cruises up the rivers of Europe and beyond. Any surpluses from the cruises are ploughed back into supporting the Festival.

And they have received some rave reviews for their efforts.

Earlier this year they enjoyed a musical Danube adventure. Here are some of the responses to a questionnaire to participants: How would you rate the cruise overall: 107 marks out of 110 How would you rate the comfort of your cabin: 104 out of 110 How would you rate the food:

103 out of 110

How would you rate the entertainment: 108 out of 110 How would you rate the organisation: 103 out of 110 If you like river cruising you will love Theatrical Adventures and one or other of the Smiths is always on hand to make sure you enjoy it! You can read about this year's cruises up the Nile in Egypt in October and the Rhine in November in this guide.

We would love you to join us!

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For 25 years the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival has attracted an audience from around the world to its annual “jamboree” and this Silver Anniversary year is no exception.

Almost 100 Canadian performers and supporters are flying all the way from British Columbia with a performance of “The Gondoliers.” America’s oldest G&S Society, the Savoy Company from Philadelphia are returning with a performance of Iolanthe.

Each group will spend almost a week in the town enjoying the Festival and the sights and sounds of Harrogate and North Yorkshire.

Gilbert and Sullivan is as popular today as ever with recent productions from ENO, Opera North, English Touring Opera and of course Sasha Regan’s all male ensemble. G&S is being performed currently in St Petersburg Russia; France, Germany and even in Japan.

Some people will spend the whole three weeks at this year’s festival with wall to wall G&S from 9am every morning to the early hours of the following morning. The day time fringe programme this year gives nine British Universities the opportunity to bring their own full scale production to Harrogate Theatre.

Approximately 2000 people will perform on stage or backstage this year – the biggest celebration of Gilbert and Sullivan that the world has ever seen.

We look forward to welcoming you!

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10 REASONS WHY WE LOVE THE

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We meet fantastic people from all over the world who share a passion for Gilbert & Sullivan. And what a friendly bunch they are. It is impossible to feel alone or lonely at a G&S Festival – there’s just too much going on and too many people to sit and chat with. Long-standing friendships and even marriages have happened as a result of that first discussion about a show just seen….

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You can see just about every opera Gilbert & Sullivan wrote at the Festival – or usually most of them. And that includes rarely performed productions such as Utopia Ltd and The Grand Duke. It’s a wonderful way to really get to know Sullivan’s wonderful music and Gilbert’s laser-sharp wit.

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You can perform at the Festival from 9 years of age to over 90! There is an opportunity for everyone. The Festival Youth Production is open to anyone between 9 and 19 years. The UNIFest competition caters for students. The competing societies take care of those in-between years and the magnificent Bus Pass Opera gives people 60 years and above the chance to “tread the boards” again in The Royal Hall. And in 2018 we have a 92 year old gentleman flying all the way from New Zealand specially to perform in their production of The Yeomen of the Guard.

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You can see or hear “something G&S” from 9.30 every morning until the early hours the following morning when the Festival Club goers are finally shooed out of the doors by security staff!

The National Festival Orchestra, led by Sally Robinson has played at every Festival since the very first in 1994. Their players are, without doubt, an amazingly talented bunch of individuals who play morning, noon and night with such aplomb. Simply the finest G&S band you will find.

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There is a great sense of “family” at the Festival and it’s very usual to be sitting at a table in the Festival Club with one or another of the “stars” of the professional National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company.

Performers come from all over the world. This year we have large groups joining us from Fraser Valley in Canada and the Savoy Company will visit from Philadelphia.

Where else could you find a four-day event featuring more than 30 speakers from 10 countries sharing their views of Gilbert & Sullivan? This year “The Magic of Gilbert & Sullivan” delves into the history, the music and many other things G&S. Experts from around the world will take part in this fascinating insight into the UK’s first musical theatre partnership that paved the way for Rodgers and Hammerstein, Rice and Lloyd Webber and many more.

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The National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company is the Festival’s own, professional company and every year performs a minimum of four brand new productions.

In 2018 they will perform SIX new productions including a first professional look at Haddon Hall for more than 120 years. A versatile and hugely talented group of professionals who also “hit the road” after the Festival and go on tour around the UK. What an achievement.

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It’s all done without any public funding whatsoever……… and there aren’t many opera festivals and indeed opera companies in the UK who can say that!!

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BUXTON Celebrating our silver jubilee year

This is where it all began in 1994 and it is appropriate that our Silver Jubilee Festival celebrations "kick off" in the magnificent Buxton Opera House at the end of July. Just think of all the water that has flowed under the G&S bridge over those 25 years.

We will be looking back at many of the highlights at our Gala Dinner in the Pavilion Arts Centre on Monday, July 30 - and hopefully welcoming many of the personalities from on stage, backstage and front of house who have contributed to the amazing development of what has become the world's largest celebration of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Another memorable evening will be the Derby G&S Company production of "the Mikado." We were shocked to hear that after 50 years the festival's most successful performing group would close after their performance in Buxton on Friday, August 3. We hope you will want to help us make it an amazingly memorable night. Derby have won the international trophy on six occasions and many individual awards. Many of their members have travelled with us to America and to Lanzarote. If you haven't got your tickets get them now!

Each evening following the performance you are invited to enjoy an informal gathering in the Pavilion restaurant area .We look forward to meeting you there!

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BUXTON OPERA HOUSE

DIARY OF PERFORMANCE

MONDAY JULY 30 7.30pm Pavilion Arts Centre SILVER JUBILEE DINNER AND CELEBRATION

TUESDAY JULY 31 1.30pm Pavilion Arts Centre Cinema UTOPIA Ltd. (FILM) National G&S Opera Company 7.30pm Buxton Opera House THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE National G&S Opera Company

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 1 10.30am Palace Hotel Martin Yates (Chairman), Stephen Turnbull (Secretary) “Haddon Hall” – the history and the score 2.00pm Coach leaves front of Opera House for visit and tour of Haddon Hall 2.30pm Buxton Opera House RUDDIGORE National G&S Opera Company 7.30pm Buxton Opera House RUDDIGORE National G&S Opera Company

THURSDAY AUGUST 2 1.30pm Pavilion Arts Centre Cinema PRINCESS IDA (FILM) National G&S Opera Company 7.30pm Buxton Opera House HADDON HALL National G&S Opera Company

FRIDAY AUGUST 3 7.30pm Buxton Opera House THE MIKADO

Derby G&S Company

SATURDAY AUGUST 4 2.30pm Buxton Opera House TRIAL BY JURY & THE SORCERER National G&S Opera Company 7.30pm Buxton Opera House TRIAL BY JURY & THE SORCERER National G&S Opera Company

SUNDAY AUGUST 5 2.30pm Buxton Opera House RUDDIGORE National G&S Opera Company 7.30pm Buxton Opera House THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE National G&S Opera Company EACH EVENING AFTER THE PERFORMANCE THE PAVILION GARDENS BAR WILL BE OPEN AS A MEETING PLACE FOR OUR GUESTS. You can book theatre and film tickets for any of the above events by calling the Buxton Opera House Box Office on 01298 72190 Tickets for the Haddon Hall trip and talk on August 1st are only available from Halifax on 01422 323 252 Box Office: www.gsfestivals.org

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Haddon Hall

One of the most exciting elements of this year's festival will be the very special performance of Haddon Hall which will be performed in both Buxton and Harrogate by the National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company with a supporting amateur chorus. This will be the first time this Sullivan and Grundy Opera will have been presented with a professional line-up of principals since its first production in 1892.

Haddon Hall is a dramatisation of a 19th century legend: Dorothy Vernon's elopement in 1563 with John Manners, son of Thomas Manners, first Earl of Rutland. For the opera, Grundy moved the story forward to about 1660 adding the conflict between the Royalists and the Roundheads as a backdrop to the plot.

Sarah Helsby Hughes, artistic director of Heritage Opera will direct the production. Andrew Nicklin is the musical director.

We are delighted to announce some "big" name artists who have already confirmed their participation. Bruce Graham rejoins the company after his fantastic success with Follies at the National Theatre; Richard Suart, Donald Maxwell and Nick Sales are three more of our big-name stars. Along with David Menezes (Charles Court Opera); Rachel Harland and Bee Bradley this show promises to be a highlight of our Silver Jubilee celebratory year.

Richard Suart

Donald Maxwell

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Goodbye Derby G&S Company “What we did for love!”

Just over fifty years ago the Spondon Musical Society rose from the ashes of the Spondon Choral Union, whose final concert was made up of two parts, the first of which was their favourite choral music and the second part was a performance of Trial by Jury, which my sister, Judith had suggested they should do.

Judith persuaded them that I knew a great deal about G & S, having recently played Jack Point, and so complete with a Judge’s costume made by my grandmother, I put them through their paces.

Like so many people discovering G & S for the first time, some of the members expressed a desire to continue with productions and so the new society was formed. I was asked to become its first Musical Director. When a decision was made to transfer the annual production to the then Derby Playhouse it changed its name to Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company.

Our second home Buxton Opera House has always been a second home to the company and it’s in that house that Derby first attended the 3rd International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, with a production of The Mikado, and also achieved the record of being crowned six times as International Champions. The company also had considerable success in the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera. Apart from the UK and Ireland, we have travelled to Seattle, Lanzarote and Vancouver Island to present our shows.

Quality in performance has always been the company’s aim and for many years it had a principal line-up probably second to none in amateur circles, backed by a strong chorus.

The company members’ average age has increased considerably, and as time marches on we have elected to take a final bow, whilst hopefully still producing a quality product. It therefore is fitting that the show is The Mikado and that our last performance is in Buxton Opera House.

We are delighted that many friends of the company will either be on stage, helping backstage, or in the audience, and I’m delighted that David Parkins, who designed Utopia Limited for the G & S Opera Company, has generously agreed to design the set and costumes for our last show.

Many of you know that my sister Judith, who started all of this with her chance remark so many decades ago, died on May 6th. I know she will be looking on at the company, which meant such a great deal to her and we all would like to make her proud. This is for her.

Andrew Nicklin – Chair of Derby G & S Company – May 2018 Box Office: www.gsfestivals.org

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DID YOU KNOW? DVDs of every show presented at the Festival since 1998 are available NOW from the G&S Shop at the Festival or online from www.gsfestivals.org

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Celebrating our silver jubilee year

HARROGATE The 25th International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival is celebrating its Silver Jubilee this year and returns to Harrogate’s magnificent Royal Hall, 8-27 August promising fantastic entertainment for all the family.

This unique Festival features around 100 performances and fringe activities all staged within the Royal Hall or the nearby Harrogate Theatre. And immediately adjacent to the Royal Hall is the specially-themed Utopia Pavilion, an exciting meeting place for Festival visitors with café, bar and information desk. It also features film shows, lunchtime entertainment and the late-night Festival club. No wonder people travel from all around the world to join in the fun!

A major highlight of this year’s Festival will be the sixteen performances of the critically acclaimed professional National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company with five brand-new productions of all-time favourites: Iolanthe, The Pirates of Penzance, Ruddigore, The Sorcerer and Trial by Jury.

The Company will also present the first professional production of the rarely performed Sullivan and Grundy operetta, “Haddon Hall” on 17 August. Its last professional presentation was way back in 1892.

A four-day event “The Magic of Gilbert & Sullivan” (17-20 August) will bring speakers from 10 countries to talk about the life and times of Gilbert & Sullivan and take a fascinating look at Victorian theatre, costumes and set design.

With more than 2000 people taking part onstage, backstage or front of house, this year's festival promises to be the most exciting to date. Imagine a 92-year-old New Zealander who left Britain 50 years ago is flying back to England specially to perform in the Bus Pass Opera production of the Yeomen of the Guard. Don't miss the Jewish Cantor who is also an opera singer coming to Harrogate with a special Friday evening Sabbath celebration sung exclusively to Sullivan music.

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SULLIVAN’S OVERTURES Festival director Ian Smith just loves the Sullivan overtures.

An augmented National Festival Orchestra promises an afternoon to remember on Friday August 17th performing all the overtures from the stage of the Royal Hall under the baton of one of Britain's most promising conductors, James Hendry who the following month will be conducting for English National Opera in London's Coliseum. Dr David Russel Hulme will be your host.

DIRECTORS Cav. Vivian Coates is back with choreographer Mary MacDonagh with two brand-new productions – and brand-new looks at Iolanthe and Ruddigore. Richard Gauntlett directs for the first time the National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company and you can be sure his Pirates of Penzance will be a happy laugh a minute production; fresh from his triumph with Opera North John Savournin is back with The Sorcerer which he sets against the background of village life of a hugely popular TV series; and Ian Smith promises a no gimmick Trial by Jury highlighting the ability of the enormously talented opera company.

winning film shows You will be able to see highlights from the previous 25 festivals with many of the "winning" productions playing in our special film studio; we will have our usual lunchtime entertainment and our nightly Festival club.

WE’RE HAVING AN AUCTION Last year we had a grand draw. This year we are having an auction at 6.30pm on Saturday, August 18 – the same day as our memorabilia fair. It has come about as a result of the generosity of one of our "friends" whose husband had sadly passed away. She wanted to help the festival and donated his entire collection of books and other memorabilia. We hope that other" friends" might like to follow this example and donate items that can be auctioned in August. And they do not have to be Gilbert and Sullivan related items. If you have something you would like to contribute to help fund the festival please email: oliver@gsfestivals.org We will be streaming the auction live online and if you can’t attend in person please email oliver@gsfestivals.org for more information.

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free shuttle service You can see from the programme that the majority of our matinee performances are in the 500 seat Harrogate Theatre.

Unlike the Savoy which we have built ourselves in recent years we decided our Silver Jubilee deserved the ambiance of the 500 seat theatre for its matinee performances. We just hope that you will support some of the wonderful shows to be presented here. We are offering a free shuttle service from in front of the Royal Hall to the side of the Harrogate Theatre for every afternoon performance – and a return following the performance back to the Royal Hall. But you have to book your seat at least one day in advance. You can book by calling the office – (01422) 323252 or you can book at the information desk in the Utopia Pavilion the day before.

Making their debuts We are delighted to welcome a number of groups who are making their debuts at this year's festival. Forbear Theatre a professional group from London stepped into the breach when one of the companies had to withdraw. They will be bringing a very exciting Iolanthe to Harrogate on Thursday, August 9. Then on Monday, August 20 we welcome for the first time Winchester Operatic Society with what promises to be a highly colourful production of Utopia Limited.

In the Harrogate Theatre Opera North Youth Group make their debut with an abridged "Pirates of Penzance”on Friday August 10th. We have a tribute from a number of well-known American personalities to World War I as they "keep the home fires burning!" That is on Friday, August 17. Taverners Theatre from Hull make their debut with a production of "Ages Ago." That is in the Utopia theatre on Saturday, August 25 and the following day Ronald Orenstein from Canada presents a special reading of his play “The Learned Judgement.”

Gilbert and Sullivan – it’s fun, it’s friendly and it’s for all the family. Come and join our special celebration.

You can read all about it in this

“What’s On Guide.”

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WE’RE OFF TO RICHMOND FOR IT’S

FAMOUS GEORGIAN FESTIVAL

Saturday August 25th. Sign up for another great day out. 10am we leave the Royal Hall by coach for Richmond.

Founded by the Normans in 1071, Richmond is a leafy, vibrant market town with an impressive castle keep, a vast cobbled market place and an elegant Georgian district. Our visit coincides with Richmond’s annual Georgian Festival and we are delighted our own G&S Festival will be “starring” in the town’s famous theatre.

The Georgian Theatre Royal is a theatre and historic Georgian playhouse. It is among the oldest of Britain's extant theatres. Your visit includes a ticket for a special matinee concert presented by festival favourites Nick Sales and Sarah Helsby Hughes. The coach returns in time for dinner and a great evening performance. Another great day out.

Nick Sales

Sarah Helsby Hughes

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AND TO SKIPTON! Saturday August 11th offers Festival visitors a trip to the “Gateway to the Dales” Skipton. Wander down the many alleyways, or 'ginnels', to savour the town's history and character; explore the side streets where you will find interesting shops, cafes and restaurants. Our visit includes a 60-minute journey up the Leeds-Liverpool canal on a specially chartered barge. You will quickly discover why Skipton is one of the most popular destinations for visitors to the North of England at any time of the year and why many people return again and again.

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Our Programme is colour coded...

Royal Hall

Harrogate Theatre

Utopia Pavilion

Utopia Theatre

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diary of PERFORMANCEs

HARROGATE PERFORMANCEs August 8 -12

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 08 7.30pm THE MIKADO WWOS THURSDAY AUGUST 09 10.30am MEET OUR ADJUDICATOR! 2.30pm THE GONDOLIERS Putteridge Bury G&S Society 7.30pm IOLANTHE Forbear! Theatre FRIDAY AUGUST 10 10.30am INTRODUCTION TO RUDDIGORE, TRIAL AND THE SORCERER

2.30pm PIRATES REVISITED Opera North Youth Group 7.30pm PRINCESS IDA Peak Opera SATURDAY AUGUST 11 10.30am THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD - Film 2.30pm THE GONDOLIERS Royal Holloway University 2.30 & 7.30pm RUDDIGORE NGSOC SUNDAY AUGUST 12 10.30am LOVE, LOOKS AND LAUGHTER AS G&S TAKE ON AGEING 2.30 & 7.30pm TRIAL BY JURY & THE SORCERER NGSOC

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PERFORMANCEs August 13 -19

HARROGATE

MONDAY AUGUST 13 10.30am PLANNING THE TRIP OF LIFETIME - VANCOUVER TO HARROGATE 2.30pm IOLANTHE Cambridge University 2.30 & 7.30pm IOLANTHE Savoy Company USA TUESDAY AUGUST 14 10.30am “LIFE’S A PUDDING FULL OF PLUMS!” Ian Smith 2.30pm THE MIKADO York University 7.30pm THE GONDOLIERS Fraser Valley Stage, Canada WEDNESDAY AUGUST 15 10.30am MORE RECOLLECTIONS FROM ROBERTA MORRELL 2.30pm THE THESPIS CONUNDRUM 7.30pm RUDDIGORE Preston G&S Society THURSDAY AUGUST 16 10.30am THE HISTORY OF HADDON HALL 2.30pm PATIENCE LopSoc University of Southampton 7.30pm PATIENCE SavoyNet Performing Group FRIDAY AUGUST 17 10.30am THE MAGIC OF GILBERT AND SULLIVAN (Crown Hotel) 2.30pm KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING 2.30pm SULLIVAN OVERTURES The Magic of G&S 7.30pm HADDON HALL NGSOC SATURDAY AUGUST 18 10.30am INTRODUCTION TO THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE 10.30am THE MAGIC OF GILBERT AND SULLIVAN (Crown Hotel) 2.30pm THE MAGIC OF GILBERT AND SULLIVAN (Crown Hotel) 2.30pm THE SORCERER Youth Production 2.30pm & 7.30pm IOLANTHE NGSOC SUNDAY AUGUST 19 10.30am Church Service - St. Peter’s, Harrogate 2.00pm THE MAGIC OF GILBERT AND SULLIVAN 2.30pm TRIAL BY JURY & THE SORCERER NGSOC 2.30pm THE MIKADO Hull University 7.30pm THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE NGSOC

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PERFORMANCEs August 20 -27

HARROGATE

MONDAY AUGUST 20 10.30am THE MAGIC OF G&S - ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM (Crown Hotel) 2.30pm THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE Newcastle University 7.30pm UTOPIA LTD Winchester Operatic Society TUESDAY AUGUST 21 10.30am THE PLEASURES AND PITFALLS OF ANNOTATIVE G&S 2.30pm IOLANTHE Birmingham University 7.30pm PATIENCE New London Opera Group WEDNESDAY AUGUST 22 10.30am ON STAGE WITH MET OPERA, NEW YORK AND G&S 2.30pm TRIAL BY JURY & HMS PINAFORE Kings College London 2.30pm THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE NGSOC 7.30pm RUDDIGORE NGSOC THURSDAY AUGUST 23 10.30am THE CARPET QUARREL 2.30pm PRINCESS IDA Grosvenor Light Opera Company 7.30pm THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD Bus Pass Opera FRIDAY AUGUST 24 10.30am THE HISTORY of the TRUMPET 2.30pm MR. SIVETER REGRETS...

7.30pm THE GRAND DUKE Trent Opera SATURDAY AUGUST 25 10.30am FROM CANDLES TO COMPUTERS 2.30pm TRIAL BY JURY & THE SORCERER NGSOC 7:30pm HMS PINAFORE Charles Court Opera SUNDAY AUGUST 26 10.30am TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT IOLANTHE 2.30pm THE LEARNED JUDGEMENT - A NEW ORIGINAL PLAY 2.30pm IOLANTHE NGSOC 7.30pm RUDDIGORE NGSOC MONDAY AUGUST 27 10.30am THE ECHOES OF OUR FESTIVAL 2.30pm OUR SILVER JUBILEE THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION 2.30pm RUDDIGORE NGSOC 7.30pm THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE NGSOC Box Office: www.gsfestivals.org

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About the festival The Gilbert and Sullivan Festival was founded in 1994 and for the first 20 years was staged in Buxton Opera House in the Derbyshire Peak District. In 2014 the Festival moved to its new location in Harrogate.

The Festival is renowned for its friendly welcome and visitors return year after year to soak up its special atmosphere. This year's programme has been simplified to avoid overlaps and features: 9:30am WINNERS FILM SHOWS Heritage Lounge 10.30am G&S RELATED FRINGE PRESENTATIONS Utopia Theatre 1:00pm FREE LUNCHTIME ENTERTAINMENT Utopia Pavilion 2:30pm MATINEE PERFORMANCES Harrogate Theatre 1:50pm & 6:50pm 10 MINUTE INTRODUCTIONS IN THE ROYAL HALL MATINEE AND EVENING PERFORMANCES Utopia Pavilion 7:30pm PROFESSIONAL, SEMI-PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR PRODUCTIONS The Royal Hall 10:00pm FESTIVAL CLUB AND CABARET Utopia Pavilion Tickets for every single event at this year's festival are available from the Festival Box Office – 01422 323252 or online at www.gsfestivals.org or from the Tourist Information Centres in Harrogate, Knaresborough and Ripon. Tickets for Harrogate Theatre are available in their box office.

Whilst we anticipate that tickets will be available "on the door" for matinee and evening performances, we strongly recommend that you pre-book the programmes you are interested in as early as possible.

The Festival Shop, Information Desk and daytime Box Office is on Tower Green at the entry to the Utopia Pavilion and opens at 5pm on Wednesday August 8th. It is then open daily from 9:30am to the end of the evening interval.

If you need any assistance or have any queries please do not hesitate to call the Festival office on 01422 323 252 or email oliver@gsfestivals.org.

We are here to ensure you have a wonderful and happy time in Harrogate!

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Venues at the festival Crowne Plaza Majestic Hotel Premier Inn Utopia Pavilion Utopia Theatre Heritage Lounge The Royal Hall Harrogate Theatre

The picture (above) shows what a compact Festival we have.

You can see just how easy it is to get around. You can walk from the Utopia Pavilion straight into the Royal Hall.

The Festival brings together a wonderful mix of leading performing groups who compete for the coveted Festival championship trophy.

There are also professional performances from the outstanding National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, Charles Court Opera and Forbear! Theatre.

Adjoining the Royal Hall on one side is a veritable Gilbert and Sullivan wonderland called the "Utopia Pavilion." This is the place where everyone can meet from early morning until the early hours. There is a wide range of catering facilities; a bar; G&S shop; Film shows; free lunchtime entertainment and every evening after the curtain falls the Festival club comes to life here, with singing and entertainment.

The Utopia Pavilion is also the venue for our morning fringe activities which will include some interesting and original presentations. These are in our specially built Utopia Theatre. And if that’s not enough we will be making a trip down memory lane with our G&S Cinema in the Royal Hall Heritage Lounge playing a selection of films of Festival winners from 1994.

And only five minutes walk away is the Harrogate Theatre. This is the venue for all our matinee performances up to August 23rd including the UNIFest competition featuring leading British universities performing a fully staged Gilbert and Sullivan opera.

With Harrogate's major hotels only minutes away by foot you can see why this is such an ideal venue for such a special Festival.

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VENUES AT THE FESTIVAL INFORMATION DESK & Box Office Tower Green - the striking entrance to our Utopia Pavilion. Throughout the Festival you can book tickets for any Festival event from our Box Office Information Desk which is situated here. It will be open from 9:30am until the end of the evening interval. You can book tickets before the Festival opens at www.gsfestivals.org; or by phone on 01422 323252.

HERITAGE LOUNGE “Upstairs” in the Royal Hall. This intimate lounge is the venue for our “winners film shows”.

THE ROYAL HALL This magnificent thousand seat Edwardian theatre certainly has the "wow" factor and is the U.K.'s only surviving Kursaal. The Box Office at the entrance to the Royal Hall is open between 6.30pm and 7.40pm each day of the Festival and from 1:30pm - 2:30pm for Saturday and Sunday matinees. During the daytime you can book or collect tickets from the Information Desk at the entry to the Utopia Pavilion next door.

HARROGATE THEATRE

Venue for all our fringe matinees from August 8th - 23rd. You can book for any of these shows at their box office - 01423 502116 or online - www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk or via the festival website www.gsfestivals.org

UTOPIA PAVILION Here we have our own Festival private bar, restaurant, cafe, cabaret club and shopping area. It is located immediately to the left hand side of the Royal Hall. You can enter through the front doors or directly from the Royal Hall. This is the place to be from 9:30am every morning until the early hours of the next day.

UTOPIA Theatre At the rear of the Utopia Pavilion. This is the venue for our morning fringe programmes and matinees from August 24th - 27th.

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THE ROYAL HALL

DRESS CIRCLE Rows A - H GRAND CIRCLE Rows A - J

GRAND HALL (Raised) Rows F - N

GRAND HALL (Flat) Rows A - E Here is the magnificently restored Royal Hall and from the inset you can see how we bring in our special tiered seating to add a new dimension and wonderful views for people seated in the back eight rows of the Grand Hall.

MORE TIERED SEATING IN THE STALLS Yes, we will be raising the roof and the stalls again in the Harrogate Royal Hall this summer. We will be raising the roof with some fantastic performances – and we are raising the stalls with eight rows of our familiar tiered seating which, over the last couple of years have proved so successful. The illustration below shows rows A-E on the flat and then the staggered tiered seats from rows F-N.

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For our Silver Jubilee Anniversary Festival we are delighted to announce that we will be returning to the Harrogate Theatre for most of our matinee performances.

At some of last year's performances our home-built Savoy theatre was "sold out" and it was quite clear that we would either have to hire a bigger bleacher seat facility or move this important aspect of the Festival elsewhere. The Harrogate Theatre provides the ideal solution.

We are of course conscious that this is a short walk from the Royal Hall complex and we plan to run a free shuttle service for anyone with walking difficulties (see page 11).

WHERE IS IT? Harrogate Theatre is located on Oxford Street in central Harrogate and has two performance spaces (a main auditorium that seats 500 and a studio space that seats 60), which allow for producing and presenting theatre, dance, music and comedy. The Theatre has undergone considerable artistic development in the past 10 years that has seen the organisation establish itself as a significant influence in the region, with a growing national profile.

We are looking forward to a happy return.

ROYAL HALL

HARROGATE THEATRE

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THE UTOPIA PAVILION UTOPIA THEATRE

Late night Cabaret Club performers; lunchtime entertainment; evening dining; memorabilia bargain hunters. Just a few of the scenes and sounds in last year’s Utopia Pavilion.

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OPERA COMPANY TO STAGE SIX BRAND NEW PRODUCTIONS Our Silver Jubilee year just had to be "extra special" for our National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company – and it will be. We have six brand-new productions that you can enjoy in Harrogate – five of them can be seen in Buxton.

The award winning combination of Cav Vivian Coates (Director)

and Mary MacDonagh (Choreographer) return with new productions of Ruddigore and Iolanthe. Following their enormous success last year with Princess Ida and The Pirates of Penzance these are definitely two shows that will be worth seeing.

Richard Gauntlett who has delighted audiences with his portrayal of many of the patter roles returns as the Major General, the Lord Chancellor, the Judge and John Wellington Wells. But next year he will also have a new role. He will direct the Opera Company in his own production of The Pirates of Penzance. Bearing in mind Richard's vast knowledge and experience of the operas and in particular the comedy that he

Vivian Coates

Richard Gauntlett

John Savournin

Sarah Helsby Hughes

Mary MacDonagh

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brings to his various characters, we can be sure of a laugh-a-minute innovative production in the Royal Hall.

Other commitments meant that John Savournin had to take a year off in 2017 but he is back this year with a new production of The Sorcerer. This will be part of a "double bill" and Festival Director, Ian Smith will take charge of what he describes as a totally "traditional" but hopefully equally as enjoyable Trial by Jury.

And last but by no means least is the pro/am production of Haddon Hall which will be presented in both Buxton and Harrogate. Sarah Helsby Hughes who directs Heritage Opera has accepted the challenge of this Sullivan/Grundy piece with beautiful music and a romantic story that is centred around Haddon Hall, England's most romantic and unspoiled mediaeval Tudor home with more than 800 years of history to absorb.

After two weeks of chorus auditions in London and Manchester, Festival Director Ian Smith believes this year’s G&S Opera Company will have the strongest chorus we have ever had.

"We are delighted at the close relationship which we are developing with the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester," he said.

"For 2018 we have brought in eight of their outstanding musicians.

We are very excited."

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Opera Company stars

The National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company was created 25 years ago to headline our annual International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival. It has gone from strength to strength receiving outstanding reviews from the national press including five stars awarded by the Daily Mail for last year’s fantastic Princess Ida. Our Silver Jubilee 2018 season offers our most ambitious programme to date with six brand-new productions including all-time favourite “The Pirates of Penzance” along with the first professional production of “Haddon Hall” to be performed since 1892. There really is “something for everyone”. Iolanthe, Ruddigore, The Sorcerer and Trial by Jury complete this year’s programme.

The Opera Company is completely self-sufficient and does not receive a penny of public funding. There are not many other opera companies of a similar stature who can say that today!

All our performances are accompanied by the National Festival Orchestra who have also been with us since our very first show back in 1994.

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Opera Company stars Today the Opera Company continues to headline the festival but its quality has been recognised by many other major UK theatres and it will tour to many of them this autumn.

We look forward to seeing you at one of our venues this year.

You can be sure of a fun-filled evening with simply the very best entertainment.

RICHARD GAUNTLETT

NICK SALES

EDDIE WADE

MATT KELLETT

BRADLEY TRAVIS

MATTHEW SIVETER

MAE HEYDORN

EMMA WATKINSON

JENNIFER PARKER

ELLEN WILLIAMS

ROSANNA HARRIS

GAYNOR KEEBLE

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T H E M AG I C T H AT I S

Did you know that the first children's productions of Gilbert and Sullivan were in the United States and that the very popular author Louisa May Alcott (Little Women) wrote a book about "Jimmy’s Cruise in the Pinafore?”

This is just one of more than 30 presentations from speakers from around the world who will participate in a four-day " Magic of Gilbert and Sullivan" event at this year's 25th Silver Jubilee Anniversary festival in Harrogate Friday, August 17 through to Monday, August 20.

"We really have put together one of the most fascinating programmes ever presented which takes a close look at the life and times of Gilbert and Sullivan in Victorian England," says Ian Smith artistic director of the festival “We have developed the programme in such a manner that you can attend any half day, full day or the entire event for a very nominal registration fee” he added.

Speakers are travelling from as far afield as Australia, the United States, Russia, Croatia, Germany and Switzerland to present a peep behind the curtain and into the lives of England's most famous theatrical partnership – as popular today as ever before. And the programme is not purely spoken presentations. On Friday afternoon August 17 in the Royal Hall, one of the world's greatest experts on the Sullivan overtures, Dr David Russell Hulme will set the scene for one of Britain's most exciting new conductors, James Hendry, to conduct the full National Festival Orchestra who will play all thirteen overtures.

Speakers pose a wide range of questions. Can Gilbert and Sullivan only survive with gimmicks? We will be examining Gilbert's unique place in history as the man who developed theatre stage management as we know it today; his view on young women marrying older men; and Sullivan and his relationship with women.

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We will hear how Sullivan changed the lives of residents in a small town in Switzerland; the conspiracy to sack him from the famous Leeds musical Festival. How good a pianist was he?

The programme on Friday, Saturday morning and Monday is in the nearby Crown Hotel. On Sunday afternoon the session is in the Utopia Theatre.

You can register for any half-day session on Friday Saturday and Sunday at £25 per session; or £50 per day including lunch; £125 for the entire programme. Monday, August 20 is a more academic day and the registration fee is £50 including lunch.

It is anticipated that a book of the presentations will be published in time for Christmas.

Friday Morning August 17

THE LIFE & TIMES OF GILBERT and SULLIVAN...

10:30am - Ian Smith Can G&S survive without re-writes and gimmicks?

11:00am - David Wilmore (UK) The Victorian Theatre and its (lack of) Facilities

11:30am Christine Parfitt (UK) G&S Historic Costumes - Original but not necessarily traditional

12.00noon - Michael Symes (UK) The Original Choreography of the Operas

12:30pm - Raymond Walker (UK) Set Design of the Sets for the Savoy Operas

Friday afternoon August 17th

THE SULLIVAN overtures...

2:30pm - David Russell Hulme and James Hendry Introduction to the Savoy Opera Overtures James Hendry conducts the National Festival Orchestra and the Overtures.

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Saturday morning August 18th

IN THIS COLLEGE USEFUL KNOWLEDGE...

10:30am - Ian Bradley (Scotland) The G&S Scene today in University and College

11:00am - Josip Martincic (Croatia) The why and wherefore of G&S at University

11:30am Russ Sype(USA) Jimmy’s Cruise in the Pinafore: Juvenile productions

12.00noon - John Savournin (UK) G&S and a career in the Performing Arts

12:30pm - James Hendry (UK) How G&S Helped my Career

12:40pm - Ian Smith (UK) The Festival’s continuing contribution

Saturday afternoon August 18th

IF YOU GIVE ME YOUR ATTENTION…Mr Gilbert 2:00pm - John Balls (UK) Gilbert the Innovative Stage Director

2:30pm - Andrew Crowther (UK) Gilbert’s Stories, bab ballads and the operas 3:00pm - Alan Borthwick (Scotland) G Without S and S without G

3:30pm - Vincent Daniels (UK) Oh South Kensington

4:00pm - Diana Burleigh (Australia) Gilbert at Grims Dyke

4:30pm - Richard Wade (UK) Gilbert and Sullivan as a reflection of their times Box Office: www.gsfestivals.org

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Sunday afternoon August 19th

SEATED ONE DAY AT THE ORGAN… Mr Sullivan 2:00pm - Stephen Turnbull (UK) “Hideous and bad music?”: Arthur Sullivan and Recorded sound 1888 - 1938

2:30pm - J Donald Smith (USA) Sir Arthur and Mrs Ronalds 3:00pm - Diane Conrad (Switzerland) Sir Arthur - a famous British visitor to a church in Pontresina

3:20pm - Dr Anne Stanyon Ley (Ireland) Sir Arthur and the Great Leeds conspiracy

3:50pm - Martin Yates (UK) The “semi-tone slide” in the Golden Legend

4:20pm - Dr Jana Poljanovskaja (Russia) Sir Arthur Sullivan and his teachers

4:50pm - Ian Smith (UK) The echoes of our Festival

Monday August 20th

AN ACADEMIC LOOK AT GILBERT & SULLIVAN...

10:00am - Marc Shepherd (USA) Editing Gilbert: The Variorum Gilbert and Sullivan

11:00am - Meinhard Saremba (Germany) Legend, icons and history in Sullivan’s stage works

12.00noon - Carolyn Williams (USA) Aesthetes and Idylic Poets

2:00pm - J Donald Smith (USA) Mrs. Ronalds: Myth and Reality

3:00pm -Prof Clive Woods (UK/USA) Realising the Savoy piano reductions - a performer’s perspective

4:00pm - Ian Bradley (Scotland) Take Life as it comes Box Office: www.gsfestivals.org

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FRIENDS OF THE

INTERNATIONAL

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SULLIVAN

FESTIVAL Charity No. 1103178

in a new location and it would take up to five years to get back to where we needed to be.

This meant we had to make up the difference from other sources primarily from increasing the membership of our Friends of the Gilbert and Sullivan Charilty which, over the years, has contributed more than £250,000 to support various youth initiatives.

We rely on the generosity of our friends and supporters to sustain the Festival and our work throughout the year.

Eighty five per cent of our income comes from ticket sales. Whilst this is an amazing achievement it also poses a significant risk. Four years ago our move to Harrogate saw our ticket sales drop. This was not a suprise but it highlighted the fact that we were beginning afresh

You can join at one of four levels from as little as £35 to as much as you would care to donate. You can pay by standing order or annual direct debit.

There are many benefits - but equally important you are helping to preserve the legacy and ensure a future for Gilbert and Sullivan.

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BENEFACTOR Single £100.00

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ALL THE BENEFITS OF A FESTIVAL FRIEND plus...

Special Priority Draw for tickets and discount offers Invitation to the Chairman’s weekly Festival Reception in Harrogate Free Festival Souvenir programme Free Festival DVD of your choice Pass for the Utopia Festival Club Festival “Goody bag” in Harrogate Regular newsletters

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Sail up the

RHINE

November 15 - 22 2018

Join our Theatrical Adventures Sing Salon "Voyage of Musical Discovery.” We are sailing up the River Rhine, 15-22 November . It is a journey specially developed for fans of opera, operetta , musical theatre – and for people who want to sing.

This eight day, seven night cruise starts and finishes in Amsterdam – easily reached by Eurostar train from any part of the UK or by plane from most airports. Our holiday home is the outstanding premium class "Elegant Lady.” Its 64 staterooms overlook the river, located on the main and upper decks.

This is our own exclusive vessel. It is a holiday of discovery – Amsterdam, Koblenz, the amazing Rhine Gorge, Speyer, Strasbourg, and back via Mainz, Heidleberg,

and Cologne. And when we are not exploring there is plenty of time to relax – or sing – or listen. The sightseeing is spectacular and so too the culinary delights that await.

A special treat on this adventure is international soprano Rachel Harland’s “Sing Salon.” It’s great fun. It offers something for everyone – the singer, the beginner and those who think they can’t sing. They are for anyone at ANY AGE! Remember. Anyone can sing. Come and see for yourself. We’ll be singing classic pop, jazz, songs from the musicals and G&S. Learn about two and four part harmony and be the “stars” of a gala concert after our final Gala Dinner.

And as a special treat Rachel will be joined by the one and only Ian Belsey!

GREAT FUN! GREAT FOOD!

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Rachel’s Sing Salon in action!

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wednesday

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PRE-PERFORMANCE TALK

G&S EXPERT BERNARD LOCKETT INTRODUCES THE EVENING SHOW

The Mikado WWOS

ROYAL HALL 7:30PM TICKETS £20 - £30

WWOS was founded in 1935 as West Wickham Operatic Society and productions were mounted initially at halls in nearby Beckenham and West Wickham.

Productions were transferred to a larger hall in the mid-1960s and the repertoire broadened from predominately G&S/English musical comedy to include operettas by Offenbach, Strauss and Lehar. In 1978 Bromley opened its new state of the art 750-seat Churchill Theatre into which the company moved and the repertoire further broadened to include modern musicals. During the Queen’s Golden Jubilee week a production of Pickwick was taken to the magical open air Minack Theatre on the cliffs at Porthcurno in Cornwall.

This is WWOS’s sixth appearance at the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival where it was International Champion in 2014 and a runner up in 2013 and 2015.

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CINEMA

Food and drink

10:30am Meet our adjudicator! Tony Finnegan utopia theatre £7.50 Tony Finnegan's reputation goes before him.

He has an outstanding knowledge of theatre as an actor, director and adjudicator. What he doesn't know isn't worth knowing! He is in our “In Conversation" session this morning.

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free lunchtime entertainment 2.30pm

THE GONDOLIERS Putteridge Bury G&S Society Harrogate Theatre £15.00

Putteridge Bury Gilbert & Sullivan Society are honoured to be opening this year’s Festival with our lively, fun-filled, all-singing and very much all-dancing production of The Gondoliers. Meet the exuberant and joyful gondoliers and their contadine, the most romantic of secret lovers, a Duke and Duchess that would embarrass any travelling companion and the Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition that no one was expecting. The Gondoliers is one of the most loved and enchanting of all the Savoy operas and boasts the longest opening of a G&S without a spoken word, The society’s association with the festival has extended over 18 years.

This will be our fifth visit.

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PRE-PERFORMANCE TALK

G&S EXPERT BERNARD LOCKETT INTRODUCES THE EVENING SHOW

IOLANTHE FORBEAR! THEATRE

ROYAL HALL 7:30PM TICKETS £20 - £30

Forbear! Theatre is a professional company that has been producing G&S since 2015.

We treat the operas like ordinary plays and use the text and the music to inform our movement. We typically do things on a budget; in January of this year we put on The Grand Duke in a small theatre with a cast of 8 in London, which was very successful.

For Iolanthe, our aim is to make such a piece that brings out the music and the words in a way that the audience may be haven’t seen before; our movement highlights the music and our actors really understand the text. We are an ensemble company, so both the chorus and Principals are featured throughout this production, and you may see certain members of the cast appearing in different guises at various points during the show!

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FRIDAY

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CINEMA

Food and drink

10:30am INTRODUCTION TO RUDDIGORE, TRIAL AND SORCERER utopia theatre £7.50 Stephen Turnbull, Secretary of the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society is our ideal commentator on the history and background of Ruddigore, Trial by Jury and The Sorcerer, the first three productions of our National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company.

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pirates revisited OPERA NORTH YOUTH company Harrogate Theatre £15.00

The Opera North Youth Company is proud to present an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s popular and much-loved Pirates of Penzance. The story starts in an attic where a group of children are excited to find an old book among all the boxes. As they start to read, they are transported to a world of piracy full of intrigue, misunderstanding, comedy and love. Come and see the next generation of G&S performers. It is sure to be a delight!

Every summer, the Opera North Youth company gives young talented singers and musicians aged 14 to 19 from around the region the opportunity to work with professional directors to stage a show.

This year, they are excited to premiere a new adaptation of ‘Pirates of Penzance’ by John Savournin directed by Emma Black. Both John and Emma are G&S specialists and worked on the Opera North mainstage production of ‘Trial by Jury’ last Autumn. What an amazing opportunity for young people to work with them and to perform at the Festival.

Before the show, there will be a round table discussion with Marie Lemaire (Opera North Youth Company Manager), Emma Black (Director), George Leigh (Designer), Nick Shaw (Conductor) and young performers. You will get a chance to find out more about the Opera North Youth Company and the process of adapting and putting the show together.

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PRE-PERFORMANCE TALK

G&S EXPERT BERNARD LOCKETT INTRODUCES THE EVENING SHOW

ROYAL HALL 7:30PM

PEAK OPERA TICKETS £20 - £30 Peak Opera was founded in 2005 especially to perform at our Festival in Buxton – hence the name "Peak" Opera! Over the years they have gone from strength to strength bringing performers from a wide variety of sources. They were runners-up in 2014 and 2016.

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SATURDAY

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10:00am SAILING TO SKIPTON! (BACK IN HARROGATE BY 5PM) £30 Join our sightseeing trip to Skipton. You have time to browse, shop and eat before joining our 60-minute private cruise up the picturesque Leeds/Liverpool canal. Back to Harrogate in time for a meal and the evening show.

10:30am THE YEOMeN OF THE GUARD - FILM utopia theatre £7.50 Were you there? The first ever pro-am production at the 1994 Festival. It starred so many D’Oyly Carte favourites – Kenneth Sandford, Patricia Leonard, John Ayldon, Geoffrey Shovelton, and Alistair Donkin supported by an amateur cast.

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free lunchtime entertainment 2.30pm

The gondoliers royal holloway university Harrogate Theatre £15.00

Hello, and Buongiorno! From the Savoy Opera Society here at Royal Holloway University of London, presenting to our audience our production of ‘The Gondoliers’!

We are immensely excited to present to you ‘The Gondoliers’ in a 1950’s Italian concoction, where you should be expecting bright lights, an even brighter set, costumes, and acting. We begin our audition process at the beginning of the third term of this academic year, with rehearsals shortly following on. We are all so very excited to perform in Harrogate’s immensely beautiful theatre, and cannot wait to see other productions around the same time as our own performance. With all the thought and preparation that the production team have put on so far, our performance is one not to miss, and one that will definitely not fail to disappoint!

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PRE-PERFORMANCE TALK

G&S EXPERT BERNARD LOCKETT INTRODUCES THE EVENING SHOW

7.10pm singing from the gallery

RUDDIGORE

ROYAL HALL 2:30PM & 7:30PM

The national gilbert & Sullivan opera company TICKETS £25 - £42.50 There is no doubt that the critics choice for best show at last year's Festival went to the National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company and its production of "Princess Ida." It certainly had the "wow" factor and we are delighted that the same production team of Vivian Coates and Mary MacDonagh are returning with a brand-new look at Ruddigore. The opera is a parody of the stock melodrama — the villain who carries off the maiden; poor-but-virtuousheroine; the hero in disguise, and his faithful old retainer who dreams of their former glory days; ghosts coming to life to enforce a curse.

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aug 12 Food and drink

10:30am LOVE, LOOKS AND LAUGHTER AS G&S TAKE ON AGEING utopia theatre £7.50 The next time an actor complains that there are no roles for older performers, refer them to G&S. In this unique review of the Canon as it treats men and women of a certain age, you’ll get insights on how the Victorians viewed ageing, Gilbert’s portrayal of the fierce older woman who unaccountably gets the man, and the older man as formidable and wise. But, G&S also displays a fair mix of the pain of physical decline, ridicule and uselessness of the old by the young, and the pathos of love in old age. You will see videos of some of the most beautiful and comical songs to illustrate the enduring issues of ageing as presented by G&S. Adriane Berg is an Emmy Award winning broadcaster and host of the radio show Generation Bold, The Fountain of Truth About Ageing. She has been fascinated by the treatment of ageing by Gilbert from the Babs cartoons to Thespis to the Grand Duke, as well as Sullivan’s depth in portraying ageing in musical themes.

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free lunchtime entertainment

trial by jury &

the sorcerer The national gilbert & Sullivan

ROYAL HALL 2:30PM &

opera company

TICKETS £25 - £42.50 Box Office: www.gsfestivals.org

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G&S EXPERT BERNARD LOCKETT INTRODUCES THE EVENING SHOW

trial by jury &

the sorcerer The national gilbert & Sullivan

ROYAL HALL 7:30PM

opera company TICKETS £25 - £42.50

The National G&S Opera Company presents the authors' first 'feature length' operetta, The Sorcerer. John Savournin (who recently directed Trial by Jury for Opera North) sets this brand new production in Ploverleigh's village hall, where the somewhat eccentric local community is preparing to celebrate the union of the Alexis and Aline.

Alexis, hellbent on spreading love throughout the village, employs the assistance of a family Sorcerer (come-travelling-salesman) to distribute his "Patent, Oxy Hydrogen Love-at-first-sight" potion to each and every member of this happy little community, by putting it in their tea... As things don't go to plan, this has far reaching consequences that are by turn uproariously hilarious and fantastically farcical.

A traditional “Trial by Jury” from festival Director Ian Smith completes what promises to be a memorable evening.

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10:30am Planning the trip of a lifetime - vancouver to harrogate

£7.50

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“Our flights and accommodation are all booked. We arrive Friday, August 10th into Manchester Airport at 11:30 am on Air Transat and depart on the morning of Friday, August 17th. So far there will be approximately 70 of us travelling together with an additional 10 or so who will meet us in Harrogate.” This was part of our latest email from Margaret Kennedy who is co-ordinating a 15,000 km round trip journey for her Fraser Valley G&S group. This morning she tells the story of planning this adventure.

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iolanthe cambridge university Harrogate Theatre £15.00

The Cambridge University Gilbert and Sullivan Society was founded in 1961 and it has been unstoppable ever since. The Society currently stages five productions a year, including shows here in Harrogate, at the Minack Theatre and in Cambridge, as well as organising sing-throughs and other social events throughout the year. It has been described as a very friendly cult.

We are very excited to be bringing Iolanthe to Harrogate. We love everything about Iolanthe, and our hilarious high-energy production makes the most of the opera as it is written: the words are witty, the tunes are catchy, the plot is, frankly, ridiculous, and the political satire needs no updating! We have really enjoyed putting the show together and we hope you will enjoy it even more!

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IOLANTHE Savoy company usa

ROYAL HALL 7:30PM TICKETS £20 - £30

Iolanthe is a story about the adventures and trials of fairies and peers – a “fairy tale”. Among its many exceptionally witty and delightful lyrics, one of our favourites is sung by the Lord Chancellor during the Act 1 finale – “it seems that she’s a fairy, from Andersen’s library.” That lyric suggests that the entire story could easily be a fairy tale written by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen (rather than, as we know, by W.S. Gilbert). With that simple premise, our “storytellers” help us to appreciate Iolanthe as a fairy tale by weaving into our production references to six Andersen fairy tales (“The Little Mermaid”, “Five Peas From a Pod”, “The Brave Tin Soldier”, “The Red Shoes”, “The Old Bachelor’s Nightcap”, and “Clumsy Hans” - and one additional fairy tale (“The Fox and the Hound”), for good measure. Join us as we sweep you away into our magical world of fairy tales!

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10:00 am “Friends” annual members meeting utopia theatre 11:00 am “Life’s a pudding full of plums!” utopia theatre £7.50 (Free to members) Ian Smith, Festival Founder, Chairman and Artistic Director is writing a book taking a light-hearted look back on a fairly unusual life!

Blown up in Paris. Escaped San Francisco's biggest earthquake. Mugged in Brussels.

Working with Princess Grace in Monaco and a day away from meeting President Gorbachev in Russia. This morning he is telling his story.

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The Mikado york university Harrogate Theatre £15.00

The society is excited to mark their return to Harrogate with a reprisal of their 2018 spring term production of The Mikado – a special re-imagining of the famed duo’s most beloved and iconic operetta. Amidst a medieval landscape of pompous yet powerless figures, ever-inquisitive maidens and a most humanely bloodthirsty monarch, a poor wandering minstrel seeks the hand of a beautiful young maiden; but is he truly who he says he is?

Prepare yourselves for the Savoy ride of your life, as familial ties are tested and romantic diplomacy unfolds like never before, ‘executed’ with the timeless, satirical humour, surprising twists and unforgettable character dynamics that marks the crème-de-la-crème of Gilbert and Sullivan.

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THE GONDOLIERS FRASER VALLEY stage, CANADA

ROYAL HALL 7:30PM

TICKETS £20 - £30 Fraser Valley Stage is an amateur theatrical society based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. Since the Society's formation in the late 1960s it has presented full-scale Broadway shows, Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, plays, comedies, dramas, and dinner theatre to local and international audiences.

Membership is made up of many individuals coming together on a voluntary basis to share their common interest in the arts.

Over the last two decades, Fraser Valley Stage has travelled internationally with four Gilbert and Sullivan productions to Buxton in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2012. Now six years later, we are delighted to be competing at the 25th International Festival in Harrogate, with The Gondoliers.

“We’re one of only two Canadian groups that have performed in the UK over the years,” says Producer Margaret Kennedy. “We’re proud to be representing Canada once again at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival.”

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10:30am More recollections from roberta morrell utopia theatre £7.50 Roberta is a highly respected figure in the global G&S community, and was recently appointed the honorary president of the New York Gilbert and Sullivan society. Ex-D'Oyly Carte, director, author. She will be telling more of her life and experiences with the D'Oyly Carte.

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2.30pm

THE thespis CONUNDRUM Harrogate Theatre £15.00

Bruce Montgomery’s musical score was one of the first efforts to supply music for the lost Gilbert & Sullivan operetta. Fully produced in the Savoy tradition, Thespis was featured at the 7th International Festival with overwhelming acceptance. For the first time festival attendees could enjoy Gilbert’s waggish dialogue set on Mount Olympus.

Bob Binkley, an associate of Bruce Montgomery, is the founder of the Bucks County G&S Society of Pennsylvania. A participant in the 1994 Buxton Festival, he has sung major roles, and served as Chorus Master, Music Director and Stage Director for more than 50 G&S productions. Bob will give insights on Monty’s Sullivanesque score assisted by vocalists from the Savoy Company of Philadelphia.

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RUDDIGORE PRESTON G&S SOCIETY

ROYAL HALL 7:30PM

TICKETS £20 - £30 Preston Gilbert and Sullivan Society was founded in 1954. The society flourished during the 70’s and 80’s frequently winning NODA awards and performing the operas on a larger scale with former artistes of D’Oyly Carte and other professionals taking principal roles and members in the chorus. In 1994 the Society were proud to be able to take part in the 1st International G & S Festival at Buxton with their production of Princess Ida and were pleased to receive awards for best trio and best MD. The society was recently awarded a host of NODA trophies for their 2017 production of The Mikado.

The Society is pleased to have been invited to perform at the Festival’s Silver Jubilee. While many of its members will be performing at the Festival for the first time, four were in the first international festival and some have taken part with SavoyNet.

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10:30am The History of Haddon Hall utopia theatre £7.50 The preparation of the first Pro-Am production of Haddon Hall in more than a hundred years deserves special recognition.

This morning it gets it. Stephen Turnbull, Secretary of the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society paints a historical background and Martin Yates, the Chairman of the Society, discusses the music and the score of the piece.

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Patience lopsoc Harrogate Theatre £15.00

LOpSoc, the University of Southampton Light Opera Society, proudly present their first ever production of Patience to the 25th Gilbert and Sullivan Festival. They are looking forward to presenting their unique take on Patience, which has updated the parody of the aesthetic movement, fad culture, and the superficiality, hypocrisy and pretentiousness of such movements to a bustling London street in the early 2000s. Aestheticism is replaced with hipster fashion to bring this comedic ‘coming of age’ story into the 21st Century, presenting a modern take on the otherwise unchanged score and libretto. A group of trendy young ladies in London, rapturously caught up in the hipster fashion, are in love with two promising rival poets. But the poets have no interest in the ladies, as they are both fighting for the love of Patience, a simple barista. Patience believes that true love must be completely unselfish - it must wither and sting and burn!

Meanwhile, the boisterous players of "The Dragoons", the local rugby team, are broken-hearted as the ladies have eyes only for the hipster poets.

Even though they don't see the point to fashion, the team decides to give it a try in order to win the ladies' hearts.

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G&S EXPERT BERNARD LOCKETT INTRODUCES THE EVENING SHOW

PATIENCE SavoyNET PERFORMING GROUP ROYAL HALL 7:30PM

TICKETS £20 - £30 SavoyNet was founded in 1994 by Bill Venman, an American G&S enthusiast, who wanted to communicate with like-minded individuals via the new-fangled Internet. It now has almost 1000 Google and Facebook members around the world.

The SavoyNet Performing Group first performed at the Festival with Cox and Box in 1997, followed by Trial by Jury in 1998, and has presented a full-length opera every year since 1999, rehearsing for a week prior to the single performance. With its innovative production of Thespis in 2014, SavoyNet completed the full 14-opera canon, the only group to have done so at the Festival. Over the years, participants have won numerous nominations and awards.

Their 2013 production of The Yeomen of the Guard, resulted in an unprecedented seven awards, including International Champions. This year we welcome from Australia Robert Ray as our director.

Robert last directed the group’s production of Ruddygore in 2006.

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10:30am The magic of gilbert & sullivan CROWN HOTEL BALLROOM £25.00 This morning we are looking at the Life and Times of Gilbert and Sullivan – the reality of Victorian theatre, early costumes, scenic design and how Gilbert directed and introduced the dance to the Savoy operas.

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Keep the home fires burning (Light opera of new york) Harrogate Theatre £15.00

Light Opera of New York (LOONY) presents "Keep the Home Fires Burning," a musical salute to World War I that is at once nostalgic and romantic, with a big dose of funny thrown in. Hosted by Festival regulars (and favourites!)

Carol Davis and Richard Holmes, "Home Fires" features a handful of terrific singers from both sides of the pond.

2.30pm

sullivan overtures the magic of gilbert & Sullivan ROYAL HALL £25.00

The National Gilbert and Sullivan Festival Orchestra has been described as the world's finest specialist G&S "band." This afternoon from the stage of the Royal Hall they will play all 13 G&S overtures and more - music for every occasion. We are delighted to welcome James Hendry back to conduct this special event. Dr David Russell Hulme, Director of Music at Aberystwyth University will host and introduce the programme.

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6:00pm

JEWISH SABBATH SERVICE

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Thom King has served as Cantor of Beth El Congregation, the largest Conservative synagogue in Maryland, USA, for over 20 years. His interest in G&S began when he first heard recordings of the operas at the age of 16; Since then, while pursuing an operatic career, he has portrayed Pooh-Bah, The Mikado, the Usher, J.W. Wells, Captain Corcoran, and Colonel Calverley with various professional American companies, as well as directing several G&S productions. According to Cantor King, “the timeless works of Gilbert & Sullivan transcend the boundaries of culture, race, and religion. In that spirit, I have created a 30-minute service to welcome the Jewish Sabbath, utilizing traditional Hebrew texts set to melodies from the G&S canon. It will be a fun, uplifting, and participatory half-hour which you don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy!”

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G&S EXPERT BERNARD LOCKETT INTRODUCES THE EVENING SHOW

HADDON HALL

ROYAL HALL 7:30PM

The national gilbert & Sullivan opera company

TICKETS £25 - £42.50

Sarah Helsby Hughes of Heritage Opera directs her first National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company production of Haddon Hall. It is the first professional cast since it was produced in 1892.

Haddon Hall is a dramatisation of a nineteenth century legend: Dorothy Vernon's elopement in 1563 with John Manners, son of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland. For the opera, Grundy moved the story forward to about 1660, adding the conflict between the Royalists and the Roundheads as a backdrop to the plot.

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10:00Am - 5:00pm memorabilia fair utopia pavilion 10:30am introduction to pirates of penzance utopia theatre £7.50 Stephen Turnbull, Secretary of the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society takes a close look at The Pirates of Penzance.

10:30am The magic of gilbert & Sullivan Crown hotel ballroom £25.00 “In this college useful knowledge...” Our topic this morning covers a range of speakers looking at Gilbert and Sullivan’s contribution to education – early children’s productions; a look at the G&S scene in Universities and Colleges and what G&S has meant to the actor growing up.

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The magic of gilbert & Sullivan crown hotel ballroom £25.00

“If you give me your attention...” This afternoon we take a close look at Gilbert; the stage director, his stories, bab ballads & operas and his time at Grimsdyke.

2:30am

The Sorcerer Youth production HARROGATE theatre £15.00

Always a highlight of the Fesival is our annual youth production. Children aged between 9 and 19 travel from home and overseas for a week of intensive rehearsals with a professional director and conductor. The fruits of their labour – an outstanding new production. This year it is “The Sorcerer”, directed once again by Sarah Helsby Hughes. Don’t miss it!

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7.10pm singing from the gallery

IOLANTHE

ROYAL HALL 2:30PM & 7:30PM

The national gilbert & Sullivan opera company TICKETS £25- £42.50 Cav Vivian Coates (Director) and Mary MacDonagh (Choreographer) scored a massive success in August with two outstanding productions – Ida and Pirates. This year we are delighted to welcome them back with a brand new Iolanthe.

For Richard Gauntlett (Lord Chancellor) it is a special show and means he has now performed all the “patter” parts of the G&S canon.

Iolanthe is a topsy-turvy love story about fairies and members of the House of Lords - a Political fairytale that only Gilbert and Sullivan could conceive. It contains some of their most famous music including The March of the Peers and Private Willis’s solo “When all Night Long”

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aug 19

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10:30am MORNING SERVICE : ST. PETER’S PARISH CHURCH from 1pm utopia pavilion

free lunchtime entertainment 10:30am The magic of gilbert & sullivan utopia theatre £25.00 “Seated one day at the organ...” We take a look at Sir Arthur and the Great Leeds Conspiracy; Sir Arthur and Mrs. Ronalds; Arthur Sullivan and the early years of recorded sound; his visits to Pontresina.

2.30pm

THE Mikado Hull University Harrogate Theatre £15.00

After been placed as runners up last year and winners of the festival the year before that, Hull University Gilbert and Sullivan Society (HUGSS) are keen to come back to Harrogate and perform another fantastic show.

This year, HUGSS are performing a modernisation of ‘The Mikado’ in keeping with the original commentary. The citizens of Titipu are suited and booted preparing for the upcoming nuptials of Ko-Ko and Yum-Yum. Bringing it to the modern day allows the Victorian operetta to have a more relatable feel and gives it a fresh look.

2.30PM

TRIAL BY JURY & THE SORCERER

NATIONAL GILBERT & SULLIVAN OPERA COMPANY £25.00 - £42.50

ROYAL HALL

What a magical musical double bill. Gilbert and Sullivan’s first collaboration “Trial by Jury” followed by a magical Sorcerer with the National Gilbert and Sullivan Festival Orchestra and a superb cast. Don’t miss it!

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THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE ROYAL HALL 7:30PM

The national gilbert & Sullivan opera company TICKETS £25- £42.50

And to complete a great day at the Festival enjoy a new look at arguably the best known of all the operas, The Pirates of Penzance, directed by and starring Richard Gauntlett. Thiswonderfully jollyromp , complete with a brave(ish) band of swashbuckling pirates, a completely dotty Major-General, his beautiful daughters and a bumbling bunch of hopeless but hilarious Bristish policemen has all the elements for a delightfully entertaining and traditional production.

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10:30am (FULL DAY) Academic Symposium Crown hotel ballroom £50.00 This is a new addition to the Magic of G&S. Everyone is welcome but it will contain heavier academic content. Over the course of the full day event, speakers will include Meinhard Saremba (Germany), Marc Shepherd (USA) J. Donald Smith (USA) Carolyn Williams (USA) Clive Woods (UK/USA) and Ian Bradley examining Gilbert and Sullivan’s philosophy of life.

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THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE Newcastle University Harrogate Theatre £15.00

This is the third visit for the Newcastle University Gilbert and Sullivan Society to the Festival. The Society is one of the oldest societies at the University, established in 1952.

We performed The Pirates of Penzance in February at the Royal Grammar School in Newcastle. This was a difficult production for us as unfortunately our director, Trevor W. Harder, passed away during the rehearsal period.

However we all teamed together to put on a successful show and are looking forward to Harrogate where we can once again perform this show in Trevor’s memory. Trevor was a huge lover of Gilbert and Sullivan and was hoping to perform at the Festival this year so we hope we can make him proud of our performance.

We have all thoroughly enjoyed performing The Pirates of Penzance this year with its fun characters and exciting plot. The performance will be a traditional version of Pirates with a few updates and we look forward to performing in the Harrogate Theatre.

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Monday

aug 20 6.50PM utopia pavilion

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G&S EXPERT BERNARD LOCKETT INTRODUCES THE EVENING SHOW

UTOPIA LTD WINCHESTER OPERATIC SOCIETY

ROYAL HALL 7:30PM

TICKETS £20 - £30 Utopia is a paradise island where lazy languor describes the pace of life. The King’s admiration of all things English leads to the arrival of six members of the British Royal Family. They begin to ‘improve’ the island with all the qualities that have helped to make England a powerful, happy and blameless country. What could possibly go wrong?

Winchester Musical and Opera Society celebrate 125 years since the opening of Utopia Limited in 1893 with an all-new production directed

by David Tatnall with Peter Theobald as Musical Director. The society has been performing G&S since its inception in 1913. Sir Malcolm Sargent was their regular musical director in the nineteen twenties and thirties.

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10:30am The pleasures and Pitfalls of annotative G&S utopia theatre £7.50

Ian Bradley reflects on 35 years spent annotating the Savoy operas with anecdotes and stories galore and examples of interesting and unusual discoveries.

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2.30pm

IOLANTHE Birmingham university Harrogate Theatre £15.00

They are known as the University of Birmingham's award-winning comic opera society, always on the lookout for enthusiastic singers. Every summer they come to the Festival in Harrogate, where they have won awards including Best Female and Male Performers, Best Character Actress, Best International Chorus and the Adjudicators Award - ''G&S Camp has become a highly anticipated event for members,” they write.

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TUESDAY

aug 21 6.50PM utopia pavilion

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G&S EXPERT BERNARD LOCKETT INTRODUCES THE EVENING SHOW

patience The New London Opera Group ROYAL HALL 7:30PM

TICKETS £20 - £30 The New London Opera Group (affectionately known as “New Log”) was founded in 2003 by members of the disbanded University of London Opera Group who sought to preserve the ethos and energy of that company, whilst expanding the membership base and repertoire.

In London, the company is based at the beautiful Edwardian Gothic church of Holy Trinity, South Kensington, where they rehearse and give an annual Autumn concert. However, they also have a very happy second home at the Riverhead Theatre in Louth, Lincolnshire. Every year since 2003, the New London Opera Group has performed a fully staged G&S production in Louth.

Although G&S forms the backbone of the group’s repertoire, they are not afraid to explore other sections of the British operatic repertoire.

The New London Opera Group made its International G&S Festival debut in 2013, with a much-praised wartime production of The Sorcerer. They returned in 2015 with a spectacular staging of Utopia Limited and in 2017 were second runners-up with a production of The Yeomen of the Guard, set in the Cavalier era of the 1630s. They are delighted to return for this very special silver jubilee festival!

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10:30am on stage with the met opera, new york and g&S utopia theatre £7.50 Richard Holmes has lived a legendary life at the Metropolitan Opera: More than 9000 appearances, acting, speaking, singing, but before he began his astonishing 53 year career at the Met, he fell in love with Gilbert and Sullivan at the age of 6. He has performed 27 roles in the Savoy canon including performing with his home company for 37 seasons, the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players.

Richard takes you on a backstage tour of his life.

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trial by jury and hms pinafore king’s college london

Harrogate Theatre £15.00

This year King’s College London Gilbert and Sullivan Society present a double-bill that promises to provide new interpretations of two well loved classics; HMS Pinafore and Trial by Jury. Be transported to the deck of a 1920s ship an into a courtroom filled with puppets. King’s College London Gilbert and Sullivan Society, now in its 31st year, demonstrate how a production does not need to be entirely traditional to offer entertainment and enjoyment for everyone through the wonderful material Gilbert and Sullivan provide.

Set in the 1920s, HMS Pinafore will provide laughter, flappers, Charleston, class and character.

Trial by Jury will be traditional in almost every sense. Combining the traditional setting, characterisation and text with modern influences including The Muppets and Avenue Q, King’s will be presenting Trial by Puppets! Expect comedy, fun and a trial like you’ve never seen before and judge for yourself whether puppets could be the future.

2.30pm

THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE national G&S Opera company ROYAL HALL £25 - £42.50

We offer a great Festival matinee where you can enjoy a new look at arguably the best known of all the operas, The Pirates of Penzance, directed by and starring Richard Gauntlett.

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aug 22 6.50PM utopia pavilion

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G&S EXPERT BERNARD LOCKETT INTRODUCES THE EVENING SHOW

RUDDIGORE

ROYAL HALL 7:30PM

The national gilbert & Sullivan opera company TICKETS £25- £42.50 There is no doubt that the critics choice for best show at last year's Festival went to the National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company and its production of "Princess Ida." It certainly had the "wow" factor and we are delighted that the same production team of Vivian Coates and Mary MacDonagh are returning with a brand-new look at Ruddigore. The opera is a parody of the stock melodrama — the villain who carries off the maiden; poor-but-virtuous-heroine; the hero in disguise, and his faithful old retainer who dreams of their former glory days; ghosts coming to life to enforce a curse.

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10:30am the carpet quarrel utopia theatre £7.50 Christopher Cann combines his duties at the Royal Opera House with his love of Gilbert and Sullivan. He was the founding artistic director of the New London Opera Group (NewLOG) and this morning he will present “A Beginner’s Guide to the Carpet Quarrel”

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Princess IDA Grosvenor Light Opera Company Harrogate Theatre £15.00

The Grosvenor Light Opera Company will be bringing an exciting non traditional interpretation of "Princess Ida" to Harrogate this Summer.

Director Tony Baker has chosen to avoid the usual pseudo medieval settings and costumes and to bring a different visual angle to the piece, whilst still keeping all of Gilbert's dialogue and Sullivan's music intact. The production uses the premise of a boys’’ school and a girls’ school coming together to present a performance of "Princess Ida" within a 1930's classroom setting.

Masters and pupils both taking part in the show.

GLOC is a leading London G&S Society with a long history - over 70 performances of G&S since its debut in 1949! As one of the only amateur operatic societies both to rehearse and perform in Central London, we attract a membership largely of young professionals who work in the centre of town, together with students attending the city’s universities and colleges.

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aug 23 6.50PM utopia pavilion

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G&S EXPERT BERNARD LOCKETT INTRODUCES THE EVENING SHOW

The Yeomen of the guard ROYAL HALL 7:30PM

bus pass opera

TICKETS £20 - £30 Established exclusively for the over 60s this will be Bus Pass Opera's fifth production and there is no doubt their audience support grows year by year.

The performers themselves boast an amazing pedigree of experience in performing Gilbert and Sullivan and they certainly demonstrate that age is no barrier to the clear delivery of Gilbert's words and articulation of Sullivan's music.

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10:30am The history of the trumpet utopia theatre £7.50 Anthony Thompson has been a member of the Festival Orchestra for over a decade as principal trumpet. Away from the theatre Anthony is an active member of his local Salvation Army and today he will be giving us an illustrated talk on the history of the trumpet from the time of the bible to modern day. He will play various incarnations of the instrument including a 19th century cornet that would have been the type used by Sullivan.

from 1pm utopia pavilion

free lunchtime entertainment

2:30pm

MR. SIVETER REGRETS...

utopia theatre

£15.00

Matthew Siveter has been delighting audiences with his unique brand of comedy and musical delights around the country, and his new show “Mr. Siveter Regrets...” promises to be equally as zany as the rest.

Matthew, of course, is also performing this year with the National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company.

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21 22 23 24 25 26 27 20 21 20 22 23 FRIDAY

aug 24 6.50PM utopia pavilion

PRE-PERFORMANCE TALK

G&S EXPERT BERNARD LOCKETT INTRODUCES THE EVENING SHOW

The Grand duke

TICKETS £20 - £30

ROYAL HALL 7:30PM

Trent opera

Trent Opera bring this year's international competition to a close with The Grand Duke – the final collaboration of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Previous international winners, Trent are certain to want to send their audience away with happy memories of their evening at the Royal Hall.

Directed and conducted by Andrew Nicklin you can be sure of a special night out.

scenes from previous production

from 10pm utopia pavilion

Festival Club & Cabaret TICKETS £3 on the door Hot and cold food is available and the bar is open until late Box Office: www.gsfestivals.org

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10:00am visit to richmond and its famous georgian theater 10:30am from candles to computers utopia theatre £7.50 Ken Robertson Scott was employed by the original D'Oyly Carte Opera Company prior to establishing a successful career in television with the BBC. His presentation shows how the D'Oyly Carte moved from candles to computers.

from 1pm utopia pavilion

free lunchtime entertainment 2.30pm

taverners theatre Utopia theatre £15.00

Taverners Theatre, a new amateur operetta society founded in August of this year, are bringing their first production to the Festival so that they can share it with a wider audience. The show is Ages Ago, by W. S. Gilbert and Frederic Clay. As opposed to the traditional casting of this show, in which each actor plays two of the five roles, Taverners have put together a revival featuring ten experienced G&S performers aged between 20 and 30, all of whom are based in and around Hull.

2.30pm

Trial by jury & the sorcerer national G&S Opera company

£25.00 - £42.50

ROYAL HALL

It's the start of Bank Holiday weekend and your last opportunity to see all the Opera Company 2018 season productions. We begin with Ian Smith's "Trial by Jury” followed by an exciting "Sorcerer” produced by John Savournin.

Box Office: www.gsfestivals.org

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21 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 20 21 20 22 23 SATURDAY

aug 25 6.50PM utopia pavilion

PRE-PERFORMANCE TALK

G&S EXPERT BERNARD LOCKETT INTRODUCES THE EVENING SHOW

7.10pm singing from the gallery

HMS PINAFORE CHARLES COURT OPERA

ROYAL HALL 7:30PM

TICKETS £25- £44 CCO are delighted to be presenting a fresh, witty take on HMS Pinafore, one of the earliest enduring successes of Gilbert and Sullivan’s famous collaboration which remains a firm favourite with audiences. All aboard a Royal Naval submarine, it contains some of Sullivan’s sunniest music and tells the story of Josephine the Captain’s daughter and her love for a lowly sailor Ralph Rackstraw, despite being promised in marriage to the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Joseph Porter. Gilbert uses the strictly hierarchical society of life to satirise the rigidity of the British Class system.

This brand new production promises an evening of rollicking choruses, and tender tunes imbued with the unique wit and infectious energy of a CCO production to be enjoyed by all ages.

from 10pm utopia pavilion

Festival Club & Cabaret TICKETS £3 on the door Hot and cold food is available and the bar is open until late Box Office: www.gsfestivals.org

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10:30am TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT IOLANTHE utopia theatre £7.50 Secretary of the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society Stephen Turnbull, returns with some fascinating insights into this afternoon's performance of Iolanthe.

from 1pm utopia pavilion

free lunchtime entertainment 2:30pm

THE LEARNED JUDGEMENT - A NEW AND ORIGINAL PLAY

£15.00

utopia theatre

This afternoon we have something rather special. An Entirely New and Original Play in One Act entitled, THE LEARNED JUDGEMENT or Gone Abroad! It has been written by Canadian G&S enthusiast Ronald Orenstein and features some well known G&S characters including Sir Despard Murgatroyd, Minister of Education; Phyllis, a ward of court, aged eight; Aline and Bailey Barre, law clerk to the Lord Chancellor. Well known Festival performers (including Roberta Morrell) will present a semi-staged reading.

2.30pm

IOLANTHE national G&S Opera company ROYAL HALL £25.00 - £42.50

Cav Vivian Coates (Director) and Mary MacDonagh (Choreographer) scored a massive success in August with two outstanding productions – Ida and Pirates.

This year we are delighted to welcome them back with a brand new Iolanthe. For Richard Gauntlett (Lord Chancellor) it is a special show and means he has now performed all the “patter” parts of the G&S canon.

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21 24 22 2523 24 25 26 27 20 21 20 22 23 SUNDAY

aug 26 6.50PM utopia pavilion

PRE-PERFORMANCE TALK

G&S EXPERT BERNARD LOCKETT INTRODUCES THE EVENING SHOW

RUDDIGORE

ROYAL HALL 7:30PM

The national gilbert & Sullivan opera company TICKETS £25 - £42.50 There is no doubt that the critics choice for best show at last year's Festival went to the National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company and its production of "Princess Ida." It certainly had the "wow" factor and we are delighted that the same production team of Vivian Coates and Mary MacDonagh are returning with a brand-new look at Ruddigore. The opera is a parody of the stock melodrama — the villain who carries off the maiden; poor-but-virtuous-heroine; the hero in disguise, and his faithful old retainer who dreams of their former glory days; ghosts coming to life to enforce a curse.

from 10pm utopia pavilion

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10:30am THE ECHOS OF OUR FESTIVAL utopia theatre £7.50 Ian Smith the Festival Founder and Artistic Director looks back over a lifetime of Gilbert and Sullivan and in particular 25 years of the Festival. For all the ups and downs he believes that "the echoes of our Festival shall rise triumphant overall." A fitting climax to our Silver Jubilee celebrations.

from 1pm utopia pavilion

free lunchtime entertainment 2:30pm

OUR SILVER JUBILEE THANKSGIVING celebration

£15

utopia theatre

During the lifetime of the Festival we really have “sailed the ocean blue” taking G&S to San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Gettysburg, Lanzarote, Eastbourne, Buxton and Harrogate. Our final concert in 2018 features G&S highlights and memories of 25 happy years.

2.30pm

RUDDIGORE national G&S Opera company ROYAL HALL £25.00 - £42.50

Vivian Coates’ dramatic production of Ruddigore returns to the Royal Hall this evening. Great music. Great cast and great atmosphere for a show that is enjoying increasing popularity wherever it plays.

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21 24 22 2523 2624 25 26 27 20 21 20 22 23 MONDAY

aug 27 6.50PM utopia pavilion

PRE-PERFORMANCE TALK

G&S EXPERT BERNARD LOCKETT INTRODUCES THE EVENING SHOW

THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE ROYAL HALL 7:30PM

The national gilbert & Sullivan opera company

Hold tight for an evening full of good humour and laughter as we set sail with Richard Gauntlett's saucy "Pirates of Penzance."

Richard not only directs but stars as the dotty Major General with a handful of beautiful daughters captured and captivated by some handsome pirates who end up fighting the British Constabulary!

from 10pm utopia pavilion

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[ New Year [

Gala Concert Enjoy the delights of Strauss, Lehar, Offenbach, Sousa, Rodgers and Hammerstein and much more with the National Festival Orchestra and our outstanding soloists Nick Sales, Sarah Helsby Hughes and John Savournin in The Royal Hall, Harrogate Saturday 5 January at 7.30pm

Tickets from £25 are available from the Box Office 01422 323252 or available from the Tourist Information Offices in Harrogate, Knaresborough and Ripon.

OR YOU CAN JOIN OUR SPECIAL NEW YEAR WEEKEND BREAK IN THE CROWN HOTEL, HARROGATE and start the New Year with style!

Our package includes the following -

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Two nights accommodation in the Crown Hotel on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 January on a bed and breakfast basis Best Grand Circle ticket to the Musical Extravaganza Gala Evening in the Royal Hall including private Bucks Fizz Reception Buffet lunch on Sunday 6 January Morning talk by Malcolm Neesam, well-known Harrogate historian and author. Malcolm will talk about the history of Harrogate and the Royal Hall Ticket for “An afternoon of Opera and Operetta” with Nick , Sarah and John in the Crown Hotel Ballroom Gala Dinner in the Crown Hotel on Sunday 6 January with a “Flanders & Swann – and others” concert presented by John Savournin and maestro Andrew Nicklin PACKAGE COST TO INCLUDE ALL THE ABOVE

Cost per person sharing a twin room £285 Cost for a single room £330

Nick Sales

Sarah Helsby Hughes

Aiden Faughey

John Savournin

Andrew Nicklin

BOOK YOUR WEEKEND PACKAGE NOW PHONE 01422 323 252

SAIL UP THE

NILE October

(plus optional CAIRO extension) Box Office: www.gsfestivals.org

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IMAGINE

Imagine… eight days sailing up the world's longest river and exploring where one of the world's oldest civilisations began.

Imagine… two additional nights relaxing in a five star luxury hotel.

Imagine… 10 days of guaranteed warmth and sunshine.

Imagine… sharing this with G&S and music enthusiasts on your own exclusive five star boat!

Well you can! Theatrical Adventures have chartered a fantastic five star deluxe river cruiser to take us from Luxor to Aswan and back in October 2018. Join fellow G&S and operetta enthusiasts on a never-to-be-forgotten holiday. And if you want to do your own special add-on to Cairo we can arrange it before the cruise.

THE COST Including 2 nights in the Nile Palace Hotel in Luxor, our charter for seven nights on a full board basis; all sightseeing throughout the cruise; transfers from Luxor airport and back in an air-conditioned bus; horse carriage ride for the visit to Edfu Temple; private Egyptologist tour guide throughout; all meet and assist at airports. The cost per person: £1450 (limited number of single cabins still available)

Contact Details neil@gsfestivals.org (+44) 1422 323 252 www.gsfestivals.org

Box Office: www.gsfestivals.org

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INTERESTING JOB VACANCY The International Gilbert and Sullivan Festivals and Theatrical Adventures

are Looking for an ENTHUSIASTIC EXPERIENCED ALL ROUNDER to work closely with Festival Director Janet Smith on all aspects of MARKETING; ADMIN & SOCIAL MEDIA The position is based in Halifax.

CVs to janet@gsfestivals.org Knowledge of G&S helpful but not essential

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see you in buxton & harrogate

ON TOUR WITH

THE NATIONAL

GILBERT & SULLIVAn t t OPERA COMPANY

with the National Gilbert & Sullivan Orchestra

NEW BRIGHTON FLORAL PAVILION Tue Aug 28 Wed Aug 29 Thur Aug 30

(Box office : 0151 666 0000) www.floralpavilion.com

IOLANTHE THE PIRATES of PENZANCE TRIAL by JURY &THE SORCERER

WHITLEY BAY PLAYHOUSE Sat Aug 31 Sun Sept 1

(Box office: 0844 248 1588); www.playhousewhitleybay.co.uk

THE PIRATES of PENZANCE IOLANTHE

Orchard Dartford Mon Sept 10 Tue Sept 11 Wed Sep 12

IOLANTHE TRIAL by JURY & THE SORCERER THE PIRATES of PENZANCE

THE PIRATES of PENZANCE IOLANTHE THE PIRATES of PENZANCE

TRIAL by JURY & THE SORCERER RUDDIGORE

7.00pm 7.00pm

(Box Office:01684 892277) www.malverntheatres.co.uk iOLANTHE IOLANTHE THE PIRATES of PENZANCE TRIAL by JURY & THE SORCERER TRIAL by JURY & THE SORCERER RUDDIGORE

Darlington Hippodrome Mon Oct 1 Tue Oct 2 Wed Oct 3

7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm

(Box Office 01603 630000) www.theatreroyalnorwich.co.uk

Malvern Theatre Tue Sept 25 Wed Sept 26 Wed Sept 26 Thur Sept 27 Fri Sept 28 Sat Sept 29

7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm and 7.30pm

(Box Office 01494 512000) www.wycombeswan.co.uk

NORWICH THEATRE ROYAL Fri Sept 21 Sat Sept 22

7.30pm 7.30pm

(Box Office 01322 220000) www.orchardtheatre.co.uk

Swan Theatre Wycombe Fri Sept 14 Sat Sept 15 Sat Sept 15

7.30pm 2.30pm and 7.30pm 7.30pm

7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm and 7.30pm

(Box Office: 01325 405405) www.darlingtonhippodrome.co.uk

IOLANTHE RUDDIGORE THE PIRATES of PENZANCE

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7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm and 7.30pm