Gilbert & Sullivan - Master Collection (Opera World)
by Barrie Gavin, Dave Heather, Peter Wood, Rodney Greenberg
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Actor: Alexander Oliver, Anne Collins, Beverley Mills, Derek Hammond-Stroud, Kate FlowersDirector: Barrie Gavin, Dave Heather, Peter Wood, Rodney Greenberg
Producer: Edward Simons
Producer: George A. Walker
Producer: George Walker
Writer: William S. Gilbert
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Classical, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1140 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-22
Studio: AcornMedia
Movie Reviews of Gilbert & Sullivan - Master Collection (Opera World)
Movie Review: Well done and much like a dream you enter.
Summary: 5 Stars
No. I very much like the stage sets and the way we are brought right into the scenes. The sound is as fine as you will find in any production. The negative reviews are by those who have grown up on live productions and would not have it any other way. For me I feel brought into the story and find the sets to be dreamlike and yet real. Some real standout performers are Clive Revell, Donald Adams, Nan Christie. The Sorcerer is really dreamlike amazing and beautiful. Somebody complained of the dancers legs waving up from the Parlimentary benches in Iolanthe as though this were a bad thing. I say pretty legs waving from benches is a good thing. Beverly Mills as Iolanthe was splendid ( I fell in love). And some say Alexander Oliver is too old. No he is right for the time and makes me think of Victorian England. The visual liberties taken like the film sequences are like the fire places in forground, attempts to draw you in and they worked. Good job Judith De Paul and all others. This set is one I would take to a desert Island with and keep my spirits high. Keep in mind this is television and the transfer is likely as good as it will get. If you want to be distanced from Nan Christie's beautiful smile and see things as though they were on the stage do not buy this set. I do believe that a production like this will never be seen again. The taste of the masses is dominating all and our attentions are too divided. Thank goodness there was a time when Movies and TV productions tried for artistic merit and did not stoop to the level of a boxing match. That is perhaps what the reviewers really dread and hate. The lovers of Gilbert and Sullivan had comrades in every walk of life for 100 years and now they are among the obscure. But do not fear. Computer graphics and breakneck scene changes and shallow dialog will force thinking folks to dig back in time and find Gilbert and Sullivan and laugh again in bliss.
Summary of Gilbert & Sullivan - Master Collection (Opera World)
Featuring the london symphony orchestra and a host of international stars including vincent price joel gray peter marshall keith mitchell frankie howerd and peter allen. Filmed in england and created especially for tv they have delighted fans on pbs and the bbc. Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: 01/20/2004 Run time: 1140 minutesThe Master Collection includes 10 Gilbert and Sullivan operettas produced for British television. The Opera World series (1982) is the only comprehensive Gilbert and Sullivan series on video. It comprises 12 G&S works (if you cheat and count Cox and Box, written by Sullivan without Gilbert), including, for some titles, the only available version. (Cox and Box and the one-act farce Trial by Jury, their first collaboration, are not part of this set.) In terms of quality, the series is uneven. There are some treasures, but some productions have a disconsolate penny-pinching look, and a few need more rehearsal. The casts are a blend of Broadway singers, British and American comedians, and D'Oyly Carte veterans, with stars including Vincent Price (Ruddigore), Joel Grey (The Yeomen of the Guard), and singer-songwriter Peter Allen (The Pirates of Penzance). Frequent standout performers include Keith Michell, Clive Revill, Kate Flowers, and Anne Collins, who shines as a procession of unloved older women.
Of the series, the standouts are Ruddigore, a trifle of a ghost story set to gorgeous music, and The Sorcerer, a buoyant tale of a magic potion that causes a whole village to fall in love with the wrong people; Iolanthe (a House of Lords satire mixed with ethereal fantasy), The Gondoliers (with Sullivan's Italianate, most radiant score), and Princess Ida (a satire of higher education for women set in an Arthurian kingdom) are also well worth seeing. The others--The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, H.M.S. Pinafore, Patience, and The Yeomen of the Guard--are less satisfying. --David Olivenbaum
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