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...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...
...HRGSP produce an operetta twice a year and most operas cycle through once every four years. Princess Ida has not been performed at Harvard since 1996 and the production board, which decided to put on the operetta before the controversy surrounding Summers’ remarks, was worried it might fall out of circulation...
...Princess Ida tells of a women’s school in the Castle Adamant, which teaches philosophy, science, and the vagaries of men. Princess Ida, who is betrothed to Prince Hilarion contrary to her wishes, is president of the university. Prince Hilarion, intent on marring her, goes to the castle with a few friends to try to win her over...