The brainchild of Stuart Maunder, Artistic Director of State Opera of South Australia (SOSA), G&S Fest presents the versatility of British humourists, composer Arthur Sullivan and lyricist William S Gilbert, when it opens in Adelaide this week.
Once the staple of school productions and amateur musical theatre companies, but for over a century most closely associated with the UK’s famed D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, these satirical operettas have gone out of fashion in recent years, mostly overtaken by Broadway musicals.
