Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Respectable Capers' - Class, Respectability and the Savoy Operas 1877-1909 - Bog af Michael Goron - Hardback
This innovative account of the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership provides a unique insight into the experience of both attending and performing in the original productions of the most influential and enduring pieces of English-language musical theatre.In the 1870s, Savoy impresario Richard D¿Oyly Carte astutely realized that a conscious move to respectability in a West End which, until then, had favored the racy delights of burlesque and French operetta, would attract a new, lucrative morally ¿decent¿..