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page 1Works by W. S. Gilbert
Les brigands
operetta by Jacques Offenbach
Iolanthe
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

The "Bab" Ballads
collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert