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...rare foray by Gilbert and Sullivan into social criticism, the musical treats the titular namesake Princess Ida (Lisa D. Lareau ’06) in her battle against patriarchy and the masculine world. Engaged from infancy to Prince Hilarion (Pedro K. Kaawaloa Jr. ’05), a 20-year-old Ida chooses to forsake the safety of her relationship with her male partner and instead cloisters herself within a female university, where she abandons all things male...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HRGSP) opened the comic opera Princess Ida yesterday, at Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Yard. The HRGSP spring production is the biggest budget theatrical performance on campus next to the Hasty Pudding...
Princess Ida differs from most Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Gilbert and Sullivan were famous for popularizing the opera with their simple prose and topsy-turvy plots. Not only is Princess Ida written in blank verse, its characters and basic plot line are taken from a quite serious poem by Tennyson...
...operetta, however, like most of Gilbert and Sullivan’s productions, is a farce. Women’s education and feminism in general are made to look ridiculous throughout the operetta. For this and many other reasons, Princess Ida is rarely produced nowadays...
...director Charles I. Miller ’08 believes the operetta is “a gem.” Miller says he was offended by the apparent misogynism of the operetta, but saw in the Tennyson poem a way around it. Synthesizing the Tennyson poem and the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Miller brought lines from the poem into the operetta to change the tone a bit, especially...