English comic operas

1885 comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan

1879 comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan

comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan

opera by Benjamin Britten

one-act comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan

opéra comique

opera by Arthur Sullivan

opera by Arthur Sullivan

thumb|upright=1.9|The ghost scene, depicted by H. M. Brock for the first [[D'Oyly Carte Opera Company revival in 1921]]

comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan

thumb|Cover of piano transcriptions, 1887 Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri () is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, first performed in 1882. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh of fourteen operatic collaborations by Gilbert and Sullivan. In the opera, the fairy Iolanthe has been banished from fairyland because she married a mortal; this is forbidden by fairy law. Her son, Strephon, is an Arcadian shepherd who wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. All the members of the House of Peers also want to marry Phyllis. When Phyllis sees Str

opera by Arthur Sullivan

operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan

opera by Arthur Sullivan

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