Ruddigore vs Princess Ida

Ruddigore is a comic opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan that premiered at the Savoy Theatre in London in 1887. The work parodies Victorian melodramas, particularly those featuring supernatural elements and family curses. Originally titled 'Ruddygore,' the name was changed after some considered the original title offensive. The opera includes the famous ghost scene in the second act, where p...

Princess Ida is a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera that premiered at the Savoy Theatre in London in 1884. Based on Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem 'The Princess,' it is unique in the Gilbert and Sullivan canon for being structured in three acts rather than the typical two. The opera tells the story of Princess Ida, who runs a women's university where men are forbidden, and Prince Hilarion, to whom sh...