Ocean State Libraries

"Provides anecdotes and a synopsis of all 14 operas as well as the complete libretto of each opera." --

"Running late to a gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, Phryne Fisher meets some thugs in dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver dress. She then finds that she has rescued the handsome Lin Chung, and his grandmother, who briefly mistake her for a deity. Denying divinity but accepting cognac, she later continues safely to the theatre where her night is again interrupted by a bizarre death onstage....

Retells in prose the story about a group of pirates who can't seem to make piracy pay and who fall in love with the ten daughters of a major general.

Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, The Mikado.

A suitor's song of woe for the love he believes he has lost.