* 1861 – First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

In 1919, Harold Abrahams ( Ben Cross ) enters the University of Cambridge, where he experiences anti-Semitism from the staff, but enjoys participating in the Gilbert and Sullivan club.

Although focused on his running, he falls in love with a leading Gilbert and Sullivan soprano, Sybil ( Alice Krige ).

* 1946 – Gilbert O ' Sullivan, Irish singer

* 1871 – Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis.

In 1960, Groucho, a lifelong devotee of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, appeared as Koko the Lord High Executioner in a televised production of The Mikado on NBC's Bell Telephone Hour.

Category: People associated with Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert ( 1836 – 1911 ) and the composer Arthur Sullivan ( 1842 – 1900 ).

Gilbert and Sullivan introduced innovations in content and form that directly influenced the development of musical theatre through the 20th century.

Producer Richard D ' Oyly Carte brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and nurtured their collaboration.

Ages Ago, during the rehearsals for which Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to Sullivan

At a rehearsal for one of these entertainments, Ages Ago ( 1869 ), the composer Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to his friend, the young composer Arthur Sullivan.

Two years later, Gilbert and Sullivan would write their first work together.

In 1871, producer John Hollingshead brought Gilbert and Sullivan together to produce a Christmas entertainment, Thespis, at his Gaiety Theatre, a large West End house.

Unlike the later Gilbert and Sullivan works, it was hastily prepared, and its nature was more risqué, like Gilbert's earlier burlesques, with a broader style of comedy that allowed for improvisation by the actors.

Over the next four years, Gilbert and Sullivan did not have occasion to work together again, but each man became more eminent in his field.

Gilbert already had available the libretto he had written for Rosa, and Carte suggested that Sullivan write the score.

After the success of Trial by Jury, Gilbert and Sullivan were suddenly in demand to write more operas together.

Carte proposed a revival of Thespis for the 1875 Christmas season, which Gilbert and Sullivan would have revised, but he was unable to obtain financing for the project.

In early 1876, Carte requested that Gilbert and Sullivan create another one-act opera on the theme of burglars, but this was never completed.

He assembled a syndicate and formed the Comedy Opera Company, with Gilbert and Sullivan commissioned to write a comic opera that would serve as the centrepiece for an evening's entertainment.

Gilbert and Sullivan were tireless taskmasters, seeing to it that The Sorcerer opened as a fully polished production, in marked contrast to the under-rehearsed Thespis.

Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Joseph Priestley, Humphry Davy, Linus Pauling, Gilbert N. Lewis, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Robert Burns Woodward, and Fritz Haber also made notable contributions.

Nevertheless, Pirates was a hit both in New York, again spawning numerous imitators, and then in London, and it became one of the most frequently performed, translated and parodied Gilbert and Sullivan works, also enjoying a successful 1981 Broadway revival by Joseph Papp.

Ida is the only Gilbert and Sullivan work with dialogue entirely in blank verse and is also the only one of their works in three acts.

He also played the phenomenally successful US toymaker A. C. Gilbert in the 2002 movie: The Man Who Saved Christmas.

The entire collection, plus Fanning and Washington islands ( part of the Line Islands ), was made a British colony, also called Gilbert and Ellice Islands, in 1916, as part of the British Western Pacific Territories ( BWPT ).

Romantic friendships were also popular in the U. S. Enigmatic poet Emily Dickinson wrote over 300 letters and poems to Susan Gilbert, who later became her sister-in-law, and engaged in another romantic correspondence with Kate Scott Anthon.

It was also known in England that Bradman was dismissed for a four-ball duck by fast bowler Eddie Gilbert, and looked very uncomfortable.

Christian missionaries from the Gilbert Islands also arrived at the island in 1888.

Machan has developed Rand's contextual conception of human knowledge ( while also drawing on the insights of J. L. Austin and Gilbert Harman ) in works such as Objectivity ( 2004 ), and David Kelley has explicated Rand's epistemological ideas in works such as The Evidence of the Senses ( 1986 ) and A Theory of Abstraction ( 2001 ).

The word " photon " was coined in 1926 by physical chemist Gilbert Newton Lewis ( see also the articles photon antibunching and laser ).

After directing the drama Fast Workers ( 1933 ) starring John Gilbert, who was also not in good standing with the studio, he was allowed to direct a remake of London After Midnight, originally titled Vampires of Prague but later retitled Mark of the Vampire ( 1935 ).

Michael Balfe was the most popular British grand opera composer of the period, while the most popular musical theatre was a series of fourteen comic operas by Gilbert and Sullivan, although there was also musical burlesque and the beginning of Edwardian musical comedy in the 1890s.

Gilbert was killed within months, and another guardian, Turchetil, was also killed around the time of Gilbert's death.

Gilbert has also been honored by the National Academy of Sciences ( US Steel Foundation Award, 1968 ); Massachusetts General Hospital ( Warren Triennial Prize, 1977 ); the New York Academy of Sciences ; ( Louis and Bert Freedman Foundation Award, 1977 ), the Academie des Sciences of France ( Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer Award, 1977 ).

Big Black covered Wire's " Heartbeat " twice, once as a studio version which was released as a single ( also included on The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape compilation ), and also as a live version, featuring Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, that was included on the VHS version of its live album Pigpile.

In 2006, he had a prominent role in the remake of The Pink Panther and its sequel, playing Gilbert Ponton, the partner of Inspector Clouseau opposite Steve Martin, and also portrayed Captain Bezu Fache in the Ron Howard film The Da Vinci Code.

In state G the probability of transmitting a bit correctly is k and in state B it is h. Usually, it is assumed that k = 1 and Gilbert also assumed that h = 0. 5.

The activities men were involved in were often those that provided them with more access to or control of resources and decision making power, rendering men not only superior dispositional attributes via correspondence bias ( Gilbert, 1998 ), but also higher status and authority as society progressed.

During the years when the Gilbert and Sullivan operas were being written, Richard D ' Oyly Carte also produced operas and plays by other writing teams, as well as other works to fill the Savoy Theatre in between new operas.

George Bernard Shaw wrote that Gilbert, who had earlier adapted Offenbach's Les brigands, drew on that work also for his new libretto.

Gilbert had also created several " fairy comedies " at the Haymarket Theatre in the early 1870s.

According to his biographers, Dark and Grey, Gilbert also drew on some of his earlier verse, the Bab Ballads for some plot elements.

The Oxford edition has led to an increased interest in the opera as Gilbert and Sullivan wrote it, and has also made it easier to restore passages deleted from the opera.