Best Gilbert Sullivan

The Pirates of Penzance is an 1879 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, officially premiered in New York to counter American stage piracy.

H.M.S. Pinafore is an 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera whose 571-performance London run made it their first international hit.

The Yeomen of the Guard is an 1888 Gilbert and Sullivan Savoy opera set at the Tower of London and known as their darkest work.

Iolanthe is an 1882 Gilbert and Sullivan Savoy opera, the first new theatre production staged with full electric lighting.

The Gondoliers is an 1889 Gilbert and Sullivan Savoy opera about Venetian gondoliers, with a successful 554-performance first run.

Patience is an 1881 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera satirizing the Aesthetic movement and the first Savoy Theatre show lit by electricity.

Ruddigore is an 1887 Gilbert and Sullivan Savoy opera, a parody of Victorian melodrama originally titled Ruddygore before revisions.

Princess Ida is an 1884 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera based on Tennyson's The Princess and unique in their canon for three acts.

Utopia Limited is an 1893 Gilbert and Sullivan Savoy opera satirizing limited-liability companies and late Victorian imperial culture.

The Grand Duke is Gilbert and Sullivan's final Savoy opera, premiered in 1896 and remembered as their partnership's only financial failure.