The International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival was founded in 1994 by Ian Smith and his son Neil and is held every summer in England. The two- or three-week Festival of

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opera performances and fringe events attracts thousands of visitors, including performers, supporters, and G&S enthusiasts from around the world. The Festival was held in

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, Derbyshire, from 1994 to 2013, and from 2014 to 2022, it was held in

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, North Yorkshire, usually with a week in Buxton preceding the main part of the Festival. The entire Festival returned to Buxton in 2023, where it continues. At the Festival, there are both professional and amateur Gilbert and Sullivan performances. Among the professional offerings are performances each year by the Festival's homegrown National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company. Amateur Gilbert and Sullivan performing societies from around the world perform on the Festival's main stage each year. A smaller nearby theatre and other venues host the Festival fringe, which consists of dozens of performances, including a Unifest competition among university groups, and lectures, a memorabilia fair, and other events.

History

The Festival was founded in 1994 by English businessman Ian Smith (1939–2019) and continues to be produced by his wife Janet, son Neil and their family to preserve and enhance the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the works of

. It also has a goal of reinstating G&S and the performing arts in schools in Britain. The founders believe that the Gilbert and Sullivan works are an important national heritage and legacy, especially as performed in the tradition of the venerable

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, which performed

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s continuously, year-round, for over a century until 1982. When the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company closed in 1982, greatly diminishing the amount of Gilbert and Sullivan produced in Britain, Ian Smith "had a burning anger" that the English Arts Council had not subsidised the company, and this led him to found the Festival. The Festival was held in

, England, every year from 1994 to 2013, but it experimented with producing additional Festival weeks in other towns or cities, including

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, Pennsylvania, twice;

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, once;Festival history pages
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, twice. The main part of the Festival relocated to

, England, in 2014,Chalmers, Graham
"Harrogate wins topsy-turvy battle over G&S Festival"
, ''Wetherby News'', 5 June 2014 where it continued to be held each summer,Wilkinson, Sue
"Facts and figures of Harrogate’s G&S Festival"
, ''Harrogate Advertiser'', 26 March 2018 but it also gave a week of mostly professional shows in Buxton shortly before its main opening in Harrogate.Beale, Robert
"''The Gondoliers'' at Buxton Opera House review"
''Manchester Evening News'', 7 August 2015; and Bratby, Richard
"The Yeomen of the Guard, National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company"
TheArtsDesk.com, 2 August 2016 The Festival was not held in 2020, when Harrogate was hosting an

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during the

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.and Chalmers, Graham
"Historic Harrogate venue reopens its doors for the first time in 15 months"
''Harrogate Advertiser'', 28 June 2021 During the shutdown, the Festival launched an online streaming service that presents recorded performances from past Festivals and some live content. The Festival was awarded a grant of £120,000 from the government

Culture Recovery Fund The Culture Recovery Fund is a grants programme issued by the UK Government as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The fund aims to financially support cultural organisations in England (such as theatres, museums, and music venues) which had bec ...

that helped it to survive the shutdown and, in 2021, resume annually. Until 2022 it continued to run for a week in Buxton and nearly two weeks in Harrogate. In 2023 the entire Festival returned to Buxton,Ball, Lucy
"Welcome return of Gilbert and Sullivan Festival to Buxton"
''Buxton Advertiser'', 9 August 2023 where it continues.

Description

Each summer, beginning with the last weekend in July or first weekend in August, the Festival includes two or three weeks of nightly G&S operas (and weekend matinees) and dozens of daytime fringe activities,Smith, Ian
"What's On Guide 2018"
The International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, accessed 2 July 2018
"Ian Smith obituary"
''The Times'', 27 November 2019; an
" Feast of G and S is heading your way as festival returns"
, ''Buxton Advertiser'', 23 June 2018 The Festival has sold more than 25,000 tickets in some years"ClassicFest, Royal Hall, Harrogate, August 21 to 27"
''The Press'', 20 July 2012, accessed 30 November 2020 and has attracted up to 2,000 performers.

Sky Arts Sky Arts (originally launched as Artsworld) is a British free-to-air television channel offering 24 hours a day of programmes dedicated to highbrow arts, including theatrical performances, films, documentaries and music (such as opera perfor ...

described the Festival as "one of the most colourful, melodic and joyous festivals of musical theatre you will come across. Celebrating the timeless, waspishly satirical lyrics of

W. S. Gilbert Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas. The most fam ...

and the brilliant musical inventiveness of

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, the festival is quite simply the world’s biggest event dedicated to the

Savoy opera Savoy opera was a style of comic opera that developed in Victorian England in the late 19th century, with W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan as the original and most successful practitioners. The name is derived from the Savoy Theatre, which imp ...

s. ... It is forward-looking and fun presenting contemporary as well as traditional productions of G&S.""Sky arts at the Gilbert and Sullivan Festival"
''Sky Arts'', British Sky Broadcasting, accessed 13 August 2010 The Festival's professional orchestra accompanies the main stage performances."The 30th International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival"
International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, December 2023, pp. 27

The competition

The Festival began as mostly a competition among amateur G&S performing troupes from Britain and around the world, with up to a dozen or so amateur performances. On the weeknights during each Festival, "the best non-professional groups from the UK and overseas compete for the International Champions title." Some groups perform year after year at the Festival, but some companies, especially those travelling from North America, South Africa, Australia and other distant places, may visit only occasionally or once. Others meet and rehearse entirely at the Festival. The day of performance for each amateur group is hectic, with move-in to the theatre at 9 a.m., lighting call at 11 a.m., the one and only tech-dress rehearsal (with the Festival orchestra) in the afternoon, the performance in the evening, and move-out immediately afterwards. A professional adjudicator

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d each amateur performance immediately after the curtain fell. The adjudicator then scored each performance, and both group and individual awards were announced at the end of the Festival.Lee, Bernard
"Gilbert and Sullivan are still going strong after a century"
, ''The Telegraph'', 1 August 2008 At the first Festival in 1994, first prize was awarded to the production of ''

Utopia, Limited ''Utopia, Limited; or, The Flowers of Progress'', is a Savoy opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was the second-to-last of Gilbert and Sullivan's fourteen collaborations, premiering on 7 October 1893 for a ...

'', presented by the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of

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, in the US (then known as the G&S Society of Hancock County). The Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company won the first prize more often than any other company (six times); and the South Anglia Savoy Players won five times and placed second four times. Festival Productions, Ireland, won in three consecutive years, 2007 to 2009. Individual awards were also presented for performers, directors and musical directors. The internet group SavoyNet, which has competed each year since 1997, were Festival Champions in 2013 and 2018 and are the first and only company to present all 14 G&S operas at the Festival. By the end of the second decade of the Festival, the number of amateur productions each year had decreased, and after the pandemic, the live adjudications were discontinued, but cash prizes are given for Festival and UNIFest champions and runners up. A "Unifest" competition among university groups is presented each year as part of the Festival fringe, usually in the afternoon matinee slot.Elkin, Susan
"Let’s have more Gilbert & Sullivan in schools"
. ''The Stage'', 2 August 2010"G&S Festival grows and expands across Atlantic"
''The Sheffield Telegraph'', 22 July 2010 The Festival organizers have also rehearsed and presented, most years, an adult "Festival production" as part of the competition, and a non-competition "Youth Production" (for performers aged 9 to 19). Since 2015, they have presented a "Bus Pass Opera" production (for performers over 60) in the competition, instead of the Festival production.Hardwick, Viv
"Gilbert & Sullivan heading to Harrogate and Newcastle"
''The Northern Echo'', 1 June 2017

Professional productions

As the Festival matured, it presented more and more professional performances, first on weekends and now throughout the programme. These are given by companies such as the

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, the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players,"NY Gilbert & Sullivan Players to Sail Across the Pond for Harrogate's 2014 International G&S Festival, Aug 5-10"
BroadwayWorld.com, 25 June 2014 Charles Court Opera, and the Festival's self-produced National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, which has starred such well-known G&S performers as Richard Suart, Simon Butteriss, Bruce Graham, Gillian Knight, Barry Clark,

Michael Rayner Michael Rayner (6 December 1932 – 13 July 2015)Mackie, David. "Obituaries: Michael Rayner", ''Gilbert and Sullivan News'', Vol. V, No. 9, Autumn/Winter 2015, pp. 17–18, The Gilbert and Sullivan Society was an English opera singer, best kno ...

Patricia Leonard Patricia Leonard (9 March 1936 – 28 January 2010) was an English opera singer, best known for her performances in mezzo-soprano and contralto roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. After working as a secretary, Le ...

, Donald Maxwell, Jill Pert, Gareth Jones, Oliver White, Rebecca Bottone, Ian Belsey and the

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, David Steadman, Andrew Nicklin and John Andrews have served as musical director of the company. Sky Arts calls these performers "some of the UK’s finest exponents of musical theatre". Raymond J. Walker wrote of the National G&S Opera Company: :"With a reputation for strong casts ndenergetic delivery, traditionally fresh interpretations are brought to roles familiar to a large proportion of the estivalaudiences. With good stars like Jill Pert and Richard Suart in key roles, we were assured of an excellent evening’s entertainment. ... Care is always taken with the staging and lighting of these ... productions and, as with ''

Princess Ida ''Princess Ida; or, Castle Adamant'' is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was their eighth operatic collaboration of fourteen; the next was ''The Mikado''. ''Princess Ida'' opened at the Savoy Thea ...

'' last year, they can match a West End show. ... Throughout, the chorus was outstanding. ... the strength of singing from the twenty-strong chorus in forte passages was spectacular".Walker, Raymond J
"Buxton International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival 2010 – Iolanthe"
Seen and Heard International, MusicWeb International, accessed 6 August 2010 Uniquely among professional companies in Britain, other than D'Oyly Carte, the National G&S Opera Company has presented all 13 of the extant Savoy Operas. ''

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spirited production" of ''

'' in 2011, an opera that has rarely been given a professional staging in Britain over the past century. In 2012 the Festival mounted the first full-scale professional production with orchestra of ''

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'' in Britain since the 19th century. In 2010, the National G&S Opera Company presented its first production outside of the Festival, ''

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'', at

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. The company soon began touring its productions in repertory from June to August each summer, giving performances in up to six towns and cities, including Buxton. A review of the opening night of the 2014 tour praised the direction, choreography and conducting of ''

The Pirates of Penzance ''The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty'' is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, W. S. Gilbert. Its official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 3 ...

'' and said of the company:

They are a real find with strong production values, a great orchestra and first class singing. Musically, this is a very strong show. It all looks marvellous with picture book settings and eye catching costumes plus a full and energetic cast. ... It all works superbly with a company obviously enjoying themselves. The chorus work is top notch, and they all come across as individuals.

The National G&S Opera Company has generally staged four productions at the Festival each summer since 2015, giving up to 16 performances there, while the other professional companies usually give a few performances each. In 2018, in connection with the 25th anniversary of the Festival, the company presented six productions, including the first professional production of ''

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'' since the 19th century.

Venues and fringe events

All of the competition and the weekend professional performances have been given on the Festival's main stage. From 1994 to 2013, that was the

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-designed 900-seat

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. From 2014 to 2022, the main stage was the 1,100-seat Royal Hall in Harrogate, another Matcham-designed theatre. In 2023 all of the Festival's main stage performances returned to the Buxton Opera House. These performances are nearly always accompanied by the "National Festival Orchestra". A review of a 2010 performance noted, "The music was up to he Festival'susual high standard, with the orchestra (leader, Sally Robinson) ... giving a superb and sprightly reading of the Overture and score throughout." A 2024 review thought the orchestra "plays with real finesse and lyricism, with Murray Hipkin’s direction bringing out many an eloquent detail of Sullivan’s scoring". The Festival also hosts dozens of performances and fringe activities in smaller venues. In Buxton, these include the 360-seat Pavilion Arts Centre.Woolman, Natalie
"Buxton Opera House to open new Pavilion arts venue"
''The Stage'', 7 September 2010June 2007 Festival Newsletter, p. 5
/ref> In Harrogate, some fringe performances were held in the 500-seat Harrogate Theatre and others at various venues in and around the town. The "fringe" activities have included performances, master classes and lectures by members of the original

(such as Valerie Masterson, Thomas Round, Gillian Knight, Kenneth Sandford, John Ayldon and John Reed) and other professionals, and a late night Festival Club, where cabaret performances are given each evening after the opera, and sometimes a G&S singalong is conducted. Some years have included scholarly symposia, and rarely revived works by Gilbert or separately by Sullivan are also seen. There is also a G&S memorabilia fair, providing a chance for collectors and gift hunters to buy and sell G&S recordings, DVDs, books, scores, figurines and other items of interest. Fringe events also include recitals, concerts, lectures, singalongs, Sunday church services that include Sullivan's liturgical music, and productions of lesser-known works by Gilbert without Sullivan, Sullivan without Gilbert, works that played as companion pieces with the Gilbert and Sullivan operas during their original productions and other Victorian and Edwardian works.

Effect and allure of the Festival

The Festival serves as a "lightning-rod" of G&S activity worldwide. G&S performers and audiences from one part of the world can see performances by groups from other parts of the world. Performances in the traditional style mix with ''avant garde'' ones, and G&S scholars can communicate with a wide audience of enthusiasts. Buxton, an intimate, yet bustling spa town located in the

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about an hour southeast of

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, has proved to be an excellent setting for summer opera festivals, with good choices for lodging, dining and local sightseeing. There are nearby castles (for example,

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), stately homes (e.g.

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and

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); and numerous limestone caverns, including Poole's Cavern, right at the edge of Buxton. The small size of the town allows visitors and performers to meet and mingle freely during the course of the Festival. Jean Dufty, in ''Gilbert & Sullivan News'' wrote: "The amateur performances were of a very high standard.... There is a lovely atmosphere in Buxton of Gilbert and Sullivan thriving, being enjoyed, and drawing everyone together as a family." The Festival has developed "a reputation for being one of the friendliest musical festivals anywhere, with people returning year after year to soak up its special atmosphere."Walker, Raymond J
"Buxton International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival 2010"
MusicWeb International, accessed 6 August 2010 A feature in ''Gilbert & Sullivan News'' commented: "The amateur performances were of a very high standard. ... There is a lovely atmosphere ... of Gilbert and Sullivan thriving, being enjoyed, and drawing everyone together as a family." In addition, the Festival aims to raise awareness and funds for its organizers' efforts to re-introduce G&S into British schools. The Festival has been featured in several British television shows and in the documentary films ''Oh Mad Delight'' and ''A Source of Innocent Merriment''. Sky Arts broadcast its features about the Festival and Gilbert and Sullivan several times in 2010.

Recordings

Recordings on DVD of most of the amateur and professional productions that have been seen at the Festival, as well as for some of the fringe events, are produced by the Festival organizers. Some of the Festival's professional shows are also available on CD.Recordings available from the Festival on CD
, International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, accessed 26 June 2014

Companies that have performed at the Festival

; Professional *

, London * Charles Court Opera, London * Forbear! Theatre, London and touring * Heritage Opera, touring * National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, Buxton and touring * The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, New York City and touring *

, touring ; Most successful amateur UK award winners * Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company (six championships; company closed in 2018) * South Anglia Savoy Players (five championships) * Festival Productions (Ireland) (three championships) ; Foreign amateur competitors * Blue Hill Troupe (New York City, US) * The Brussels Light Opera Company (Brussels, Belgium) * Cape Town G&S (Cape Town, South Africa) * Fraser Valley Stage (Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada) * The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Chester County Archived 16 December 2009 at the

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(Pennsylvania, US) * The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Houston (Texas, US) * The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of

* The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) * Lamplighters Music Theatre of San Francisco * Savoy Company (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US) * SavoyNet Archived 13 June 2018 at the

(email-based, with performers from around the world) * Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society (Washington, US) * St. Anne's Music and Drama Society (Toronto, Canada)

Notes

References

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External links

International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival official website

Fan site with extensive Festival information, reviews and photos
*Davis, Carol and Victoria Willoughby
2004 description of the Festival
*Garnett, Stephen. "Buxton Festival 2008 – A Summer Celebration of Gilbert & Sullivan"

2008 *Lee, Bernard.
"Gilbert and Sullivan are still going strong after a century"
''Sheffield Telegraph'', 2008 *Christiansen, Rupert

''The Telegraph'', 2009
Excerpt of SkyArts video about the Festival
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