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Princess Ida [videorecording (DVD)] / Gilbert & Sullivan.

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Acorn Media, 2002.

DVD 792.542 P957

Alternate title:

Gilbert & Sullivan Princess Ida [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

British television recording of 1982 London stage performance of the operetta.

"From the popular series seen on PBS and the BBC"--Container.

Special features: Introduction by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ; "Making of" featurette ; Gilbert & Sullivan profile ; Princess Ida libretto.

Goldcrest Films International ; Producer, Judith De Paul ; Presentor, George Walker ; Staged by Terry Gilbert ; Director, Dave Heather.

Host, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Frank Gorshin, Neil Howlett, Nan Christie, Laurence Dale, Anne Collins ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Alexander Faris, conductor ; Ambrosian Opera Chorus ; John McCarthy, chorus master.

Operetta in which Hilarion, awaiting the arrival of Princess Ida, who was betrothed to him twenty years earlier at the age of one, learns that she has renounced mankind and formed a women's university from which men are strictly barred.

Filmed operettas.

Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911.

Sullivan, Arthur, Sir, 1842-1900.

De Paul, Judith.

Fairbanks, Douglas, 1909-2000.

Gorshin, Frank.

Dale, Laurence.

Collins, Anne, 1943-

McCarthy, John, 1919-

London Symphony Orchestra.

Ambrosian Opera Chorus.

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