Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iolanthe" as performed by the present D'Oyly Carte troupe represents. It is a pleasure to say, one of the most perfectly lyrical and most permanent achievements of the great collaborators. The opera maintains the high level of its music wonderfully well even between its most famous songs, and there are a number of brief but lovely musical numbers that leave you wishing there were more--the case with "Good Morrow, Good Mother," for example. The subject, too, is Gilbertian best. The combination of blunt, but sophisticated satire of the House of Peers with a typical G & S tale...
Some of the productions in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's current Boston repertoire have been on the disappointing side for this reviewer. A flaw or two in the casting have been noticeable, and perhaps some of the romantic glow assumed by the Gilbert and Sullivan operas during the lean years tended to disappear when they were seen again. Gilbert and Sullivan, despite the somewhat mystical reputation which time has given them, were no more consistent than any creative personalities, and there are bare spets and distinctly less interesting operas among their work...
...Oyly Carte cast is masterful in "Iolanthe." The most important factor in the evening's work remains Martyn Green, who is offered by the opera precisely the proper balance of singing and "business." Instead of the constant mugging of Ko-Ko or the small opportunities of the part of Major General Stanley, Green as the Lord Chancellor in "Iolanthe" has "When you're Lying Awake," "Faint Heart Never Won," and "I said to Myself, Said I" to sing as well as some of his most entertaining business...
...member) has unanimously voted publicly to express its tremendous appreciation of WHRV for broadcasting the Gilbert & Sullivan Orgy on Sunday thus bringing a large dose of culture to the masses. However, we also have the unpleasant task of informing the announcer who constantly referred to the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as the "DuhOily Carte Opera Company," that by vote of the Society, he has been placed on The List. May he never be missed. Solemnly, The Harvard Savoyard Society, per Stephen O. Saxe...
Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air (Sun. 4:30 p.m., ABC). Announcements and presentation of the 1948 winners...