G&S touring to the North East

Published: 23 June 2018
Reporter: Peter Lathan

The National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company
The National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company

The National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company is coming to three North East venues this year, beginning with the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Harrogate, where it is celebrating its 25th year as the resident company.

The Festival began life in 1994 at Buxton Opera House and moved to Harrogate’s Royal Hall in 2014. The National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company has been likened to the original D’Oyly Carte company which Gilbert and Sullivan founded almost 150 years ago and is the only professional company in Britain devoted to performing G&S exclusively.

The programme at Harrogate will be:

  • 11 August
    Ruddigore (mat/eve)

  • 12 August
    Trial by Jury (mat/eve)

  • 17 August
    Haddon Hall

  • 18 August
    Iolanthe (mat/eve)

  • 19 August
    Trial by Jury & The Sorcerer (mat)
    The Pirates of Penzance (eve)

  • 22 August
    The Pirates of Penzance (mat)
    Ruddigore (eve)

  • 25 August
    Trial by Jury & The Sorcerer (mat)

  • 26 August
    Iolanthe (mat)
    Ruddigore (eve)

  • 27 August
    Ruddigore (mat)
    The Pirates of Penzance (eve)

Haddon Hall, a dramatisation of a 19th-century legend based around the famous Derbyshire Hall, with music by Sullivan and libretto by Sydney Grundy, will have its first professional production in more than 120 years at Buxton Opera House, where the tour begins, and at the Festival.

In September, the company comes to Playhouse Whitely Bay with, on 1st, The Pirates of Penzance and, on 2nd, Iolanthe.

In October it returns to the North East with Iolanthe (1st), Ruddigore (2nd) and The Pirates of Penzance (3rd) at Darlington Hippodrome.

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