Iolanthe in a sentence

After the passage of 25 years, the fairies, still missing Iolanthe deeply, plead with their Queen to pardon Iolanthe and to restore her place in fairyland ("Tripping hither, tripping thither").

Jessie Bond as Iolanthe Summoned by the Fairy Queen ("Iolanthe!

The Queen of the fairies commuted Iolanthe's sentence of death to banishment for life on the condition that Iolanthe left her husband and never communicated with him again.

An inquest heard how a group of locals watched them set off for the Iolanthe.

He is survived by two children, Iolanthe Woulff and Joseph Wouk; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

According to an often-repeated myth, Gilbert and Sullivan did not change the name to Iolanthe until just before the première.

After its original production, Iolanthe was not revived in London until 1901, making it the first of the operas to be revived after the composer's death the year before.

Ainger, pp. 212–13; and Bradley, p. 364 Iolanthe premiered only three days after Patience closed at the Savoy.

As she prepares to execute Iolanthe, the Queen learns that the rest of the fairies have chosen husbands from among the peers, thus also incurring death sentences but the Queen blanches at the prospect of slaughtering all of them.

Bradley, p. 416 Although titled Iolanthe all along in Gilbert's plot book, Tillett et al. 1982, p. 5 for a time the piece was advertised as Perola and rehearsed under that name.

But paradoxically, in February 1883, just after Iolanthe opened, Sullivan had signed a five-year agreement with Gilbert and Carte requiring him to produce a new comic opera on six months' notice.

Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist added gold stripes to his judicial robes after seeing them used by the Lord Chancellor in a production of Iolanthe.

From thy dark exile thou art summoned"), Iolanthe rises from the frog-infested stream that has been her home in exile.

He believes Iolanthe to have died childless, and she is bound not to "undeceive" him, under penalty of death.

He quotes from Iolanthe and then quotes the opening lines of "Oh dry the glist'ning tear", up to "..

His Foundation Trilogy was conceived after his reading Iolanthe started a train of thought about military empires.

However, to save Strephon from losing his love, Iolanthe resolves to present his case to the Lord Chancellor while veiled ("My lord, a suppliant at your feet").

Hughes instances "If you go in" (Iolanthe) as a good example.

Hughes, p. 130 Those Sullivan wrote himself include Thespis, Rees, p. 79 Iolanthe, Princess Ida, The Yeomen of the Guard, The Gondoliers, The Grand Duke and probably Utopia Limited.

Hughes, pp. 150–51, and Jacobs, p. 52 His music also shows the influence of Handel, Schubert and, conspicuously in the fairy music in Iolanthe, Mendelssohn.