Une comédie musicale en deux actes, mettant en vedette la chanson bien connue Wandering Star. Livre et paroles de Alan Jay Lerner, musique de Frederick Loewe. / Livret

Par GILBERT WILLIAM SCHWENCK / SULLIVAN ARTHUR. GILBERT and SULLIVAN IOLANTHE LIBRETTO/ Livre / Livret

Par GILBERT WILLIAM SCHWENCK / SULLIVAN ARTHUR. The Mikado, arguably the greatest masterpiece among Gilbert and Sullivan's remarkable series of comic operas, remains undiminished in its popularity. This freshly edited publication is based on Sullivan's autograph and the first edition of the full score published two years before the composer's death. Edited by Carl Simpson and Ephraim Hammett Jones, it corrects a large number of errors and incorporates libretto changes made by Gilbert after the original publication./ Feuillet / Livret

Par CELLIER / ERNEST FORD. Shedding light on a little-known aspect of late-Victorian theatre, MB99 offers full scores and librettos of two one-act operettas, produced at the Savoy Theatre and written to precede as curtain-raisers the main, full-length work of the evening. Richard D’Oyly Carte did much to cultivate the genre, initiated by Trial by Jury in 1875, and featured regularly at the Savoy Theatre between 1878 and 1908. Though all but forgotten today, the composers François Cellier (1849–1914) and ErnestFord (1858–1919) had strong connections with Sullivan, and wrote a number of one-act works, of which only Captain Billy (1891) and Mr Jericho (1893) respectively are known to have survived. / Opéra-opérette / Date parution : 1905-07-07/ Répertoire / Livret

Handel's opera Lotario was first heard at the King's Theater in the Haymarket on 2 December 1729 and had a run of nine performances. Though never revived in the composer's lifetime, Handel reused many of its arias in his later operas, sometimes altering the words.The historical background of the plot is the conflict between Otto I (912-973) and Berengar of Ivrea for the Italian crown and Otto's marriage to the Italian queen Adelaide in 951. In the course of composition, the name of the hero (' Ottone ? in Salvi's libretto) was altered to ' Lotario ? since Handel had already written an opera entitled Ottone on the life of Otto II (955-983) in 1722.The vocal score contains the version composed for the performances of December 1729 and January 1730. It is based on the Urtext of the Halle Handel Edition. / Chant/Vocal/Choeur

Par PUCCINI GIACOMO. / Opéra-opérette / Date parution : 1905-06-17/ Livre / Livret