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“The Yeomen of the Guard” opened on the 3rd October 1888, at the Savoy
Theatre and ran for 423 performances.
Whilst many people enjoy Yeomen
because of its ever-changing emotional balance of joy and despair, love and
sacrifice, it is certainly the most serious of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
The opera ends with a broken-hearted main character and at least two
reluctant engagements, rather than the usual armful of marriages. However,
there are also plenty of topsy-turvy plot complications, and many believe that
the score is Sullivan’s finest, indeed, Gilbert said he regarded it as “the best
thing we have done”.
link
to the Cambridge University G.& S. website

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