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The Gondoliers

at Great Neck Public Library | Sun Apr 07

Location

Great Neck Public Library

159 Bayview Avenue
Great Neck, NY 11023
(Map)
Tel: 466-8055
Contact Name: Donna Litke
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Date & Time

02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sun, Apr 07, 2019
Cost: Free Event
Description

The ardent song of a Venetian gondolier will be heard over Great Neck when the Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island premieres its 2019 production of the classic Savoy opera The Gondoliers at the Great Neck Library on Sunday, April 7, at 2 p.m.

 

Directed by Gayden Wren, with music directed by Helen Kim, The Gondoliers is the most effortlessly beautiful of the Gilbert & Sullivan operas, with a typically zany plot about a pair of gondoliers whose carefree life is disrupted when it turns out that one of them is the long-lost king of Barataria—but nobody can tell which one of them.

 

The score for The Gondoliers is packed with famous songs, including the pining ballad “Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes,” the rattling patter song “In Enterprise of Martial Kind,” the ingenious argument quartet “In a Contemplative Fashion” and the bouncy “Rising Early in the Morning.”  The opera is a merry farce that’s as funny now as it was a century ago.  It’s guaranteed fun for the whole family.