Richard Bratby

In defence of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Grand Duke

Plus: another inspired Charles Court G&S production at Opera Holland Park

Fresh, funny, and when it needed to, stabbed straight at the heart: Llio Evans as Elsie Maynard in The Yeomen of the Guard at Opera Holland Park. Credit: Ellie Kurttz  
issue 17 August 2024

Artistic partnerships are elusive things. The best – where two creative personalities somehow inspire or goad each other to do better than their individual best – can seem so natural that they’re almost easier to identify by their absence. No one’s queuing up to revive Richard Rodgers’s Rex (lyrics by Sheldon Harnick).

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