Gilbert & Sullivan - Iolanthe (1988)
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This is good satire as meant in the original. I know the whole play is about politics, but this was one of the few songs I loved as the original. Not to put a downer on the updated lyrics- thats what G&S were all about but we still miss:
"This heart of mine id soft as thine, although I dare not say so" and "could thy brigade with cold cascade, drown my sweet love- I wonder". Some of the only soft sides shown of the Queen.
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The rewritten lyrics are inspired - they bring a song that is otherwise lack lustre. Of course it's dated - but I used to watch the news read by Knowlton Nash on the CBC... zzzzzz.... which is why this is so funny.
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She must watch the CBC LOL
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The music of Arhtur Sullivan and the words of WS Gilbert will always live through proiductions such as these, which capture the spirit of the original production. As an English girl, I am just so pleased that performers and audiences around the world still love these operettas.
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@MopsusHears I completely agree- the Captain Shaw was funny at the time because it was current but now its totally irrelevant. I'm doing Iolanthe now and no one laughs during this song because no one understands it anymore!
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I don't mind the re-written lyrics here and there. But I do object to the re-orchestrating Sullivan. There is no need. This production is mixed, but Maureen Forrester is a wonderful Fairy Queen - may she rest in peace.
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@argonaut1112 AMEN brother, we need more of them in our lives today!
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@Betterthanyoulknow Gilbert loved to poke fun at humourless pedants like you. The Savoy Operas are not holy writ. Lighten up!
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@BetterthanyouIknow Gilbert would have loved to make fun of a humorous pedant like you. This production was trying to make this production appealing to the Canadian audience who attended this production, and they did an excellent job of it.
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The rewritten lyrics are very very bad. The mention of the Chief of the London Fire brigade in the original was not a "dig" at a man, it was an emotional plea, a rhetorical question-the Fairy Queen though that her heart was so afire with loving emotion she doubted that every fireman in London could pour enough water on it to quench it.
BetterthanyouIknow 2 years ago 4
I'm not familiar enough with this particular G&S to notice outright, but I'm not a big fan of changing lyrics. That said, Maureen Forrester is awesome.
nclysander 3 years ago 3