Davies’s shrewdest move is to shift Gilbert’s creaky satire on the excesses of Victorian melodrama forward to the 1920s, a period now more closely associated with the genre – think silent cinema, big ...

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An auditorium packed with an audience of all ages was crackling with anticipation before Opera North’s new production of Ruddigore. One of Gilbert & Sullivan’s lesser-known operettas was receiving its ...

There are several reasons, starting with the title (originally “Ruddygore”, until Victorian sensibilities objected), why Ruddigore has never been among the most popular of the Gilbert and Sullivan ...

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The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Houston opened its two-weekend run of "Ruddigore" last Saturday at University of Houston's Cullen Hall with a first-rate performance, with singers, orchestra and ...

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After the instant – and durable – triumph of The Mikado in 1885, Gilbert and Sullivan knew that whatever they produced next was likely to be regarded as an anti-climax. And so it proved. Gilbert ...

This Opera North production of Ruddigore is really delightful. Projecting witty silent-film footage over the overture to fill in the back story, director Jo Davies has updated the action to the 1920s.