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I can't remember the Proms including potted G. and S. versions. Perhaps it was just the broadcast. In the old days it was a G. and S. Prom of highlights from the operettas. I'd like to hear Phyllis's cadenza but also the other version of "Is life a boon?" "Yeomen". Some people mentioned under-acting & I can't stand the opposite. The slap-stick "director" Who "did" E. N. O. so-called "Iolanthe" and "Pinafore" has just made "the Widow" dirty for Glyndebourne.

Wonderful.

That title sequence at 1:55 is absolutely stunning. It feels like something you'd see in a classical painting or something. I hope whoever came up with that got a raise.

Imagine if Ruddigore was nominated for Best Animated Feature but lost to Disney’s hit The Jungle Book.

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like a bad drag show Skip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rolled r's are NOT ENGLISH!

Played the part of Louize in local production as a baritone singing a tenor part.

I watch this over and over. Superb! Best production ever, in my humble opinion 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

I love john reed! The role of Robin was tailor-made for him!

A great lesson for all of the Savoy children so they know why you shouldn't go searching though your older cousins safe.

When we got married Barados Festival Choir was rehearsing for a performance of Iolanthe, under the direction of the late Norma Bowen. My husband was member of the cast and therefore this production is forever linked to our lives. We will celebrate our 37th anniversary later this month, and I consider video an early gift.🎉

So, the witch's magic made his dead uncle back to life, so he can married this woman who was going to marry someone else. 🤔

I enjoyed this a lot. My only issue was not understanding everything they sang as I’m not a native speaker but that’s fine :)

Halas and Batchelor were Great Britain's very own UPA or Hanna Barbara of its time. They were the folks who gave us the 1954 adaptation of Animal Farm and other animated works from across the pond. Gilbert and Sullivan's music works wonders for Animation.

I love this performance! It's all great - but Fenton Gray (L.H.Executioner) in particular is just sublime. Thank you all!

BBC1 Continuity On Thursday 7th August 1997.

I like the Groucho Marx version of "Here's a Pretty Howdy-Do!", as well😄

I still miss my Dad's scratchy LP of the Groucho Marx version 😄

I have to admit, I really like this. It's especially admirable when people try to make something like this more accessible to families. The only gripe is that it suffers from the same problem as the Peanuts musical adaptations and Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas, in that it only covers a small fraction of the story. Keep in mind, I get making the film shorter than the play. That makes sense. After all, animation, even of this quality, is expensive and time consuming, but they couldn't make it feature length? The Peanuts musical films were also a little under 50 minutes. (Which is kinda funny considering each stage play actually is short enough to work as a full movie) Even Elf is only 45 minutes. Because of this, the stories can feel rushed and awkward in a few places. At least Shinbone Alley had the right idea. Yeah, multiple scenes are in a different order and they even added a song that wasn't from the stage show, but at least that was feature length and told a much more complete story. And yeah, as poorly executed as this was, even The King and I had a decent length. It's a shame that adaptations like this can't really do that and as such, multiple plot points that need more time aren't really given that. Again, I did really enjoy this, but even making it, like, say, a half hour longer would have been nice.

17:41 best song tbh

It's so cool how this saves the twist for "I am thy wife"

SULLIVAN'S MUSIC 🎶 TRANSFERS SO WELL TO BRASS GLORY SENGO.

Fun fact: Ann Hood, who voiced Rose Maybud in this film, would go on to play Mad Margaret in a later production of _Ruddigore_ by Gilbert & Sullivan For All, a smaller theatre company founded by former D'Oyly Carte members Thomas Round and Donald Adams (the latter of whom voiced Roderick here).

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Bizarre

I got to mow the lawn…

I’ve never seen a Ruddigore cartoon in my life

I like the dresses

This is interesting

Brilliant.

Wauw I love it I feel like Walt Disney opera ❤

I was in a production of Iolanthe in 1965. This proms performance took my breath away. Stunning. Spellbinding.

I always love G&S, but particularly when sung by voices like these. Every soloist is off-the-charts superb, chorus is great too. Ashley Holland is a wonderfully rich-voiced Mountararat. I only wish the telecast could have been more musically complete, as the performance evidently was. Private Willis is missing altogether!

Man, the DVNR they used to restore this looks pretty awful in some spots.

I'm surprised - but very thankful - this is still online. Wonder when RUclips will ban it on "you know what" grounds.

No matter how many times I watch this glorious, irrepressible, fantastic Jonathan Miller version of this, I am always absolutely knocked sideways by it! I am beyond certain that Schwenk and Sir Arthur would have adored it too! The cast is just magnificent - nothing more need be added and while it seems sacrilegious to elevate individuals by mentioning them, asides from the immortal Eric Idle who joyously brings that unique, Pythonesque, working class hero passing himself off as a nob - who can fail to garland the sainted Dame Felicity in a role she was born to - and absolutely relished? Have you EVER seen a camper Katisha?! Just sensational and it's one of the few highlights - like seeing Callas in Puccini or Sutherland in Bellini - that I don't look back in regret at having missed😄 While unfortunately not catching Idle, I did at least see most of the original cast in the early days and have happily enjoyed several of the subsequent revivals at the ENO. Thanks to our host for keeping it up here for so long, always such a delight to return to....

Another gem from Halas and Batchelor.

Just wonderful!! I remember when I saw it in the '80s I loved it.. Still wonderful!

Lifeless. Emotionless. Slow. Boring. What a weird duck. This performance does poor justice to such a wonderful opera.

Too bad it isn’t in Japanese dress....I cannot take a mikado in western dress seriously on any level, not even the comedic. When the men began to sing, “We are gentlemen of Japan,” in tuxedos I wearily pressed ‘stop.’ Unfortunately, I had already seen one of the men ape pulling his eyes into a slant with his white gloves....is that the extent of “Japanese” influence in this staging?? Truly, I couldn’t stop the video fast enough, it’s just insulting on so many levels. I’ll have to listen to the audio later, this is just horribly ridiculous.

Please watch an authentic production. The town of Titipu in JAPAN with JAPENESE residents - no one looks Japanese or are dressed in authentic costume. Lesley Garret - yikes. The camp dancing is a real turn off

Nice touch having Katisha dragging Ko-Ko off to the wings, to have him dash back, partially unclothed.... Adds texture to the finale.

It's so sad G&S isn't famous at all in my country :( The text and singing is so good (especially when it's John Reed who sings)

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Good performance from a very good chorus.Pity about Mr.Suart,as usual pulling faces, changing accents etc as is his wont in Gand S.

Richard Angas reprises his Mikado role in this production after he first performed it for TV for the BBC 14 years prior. I bet it must've been boiling wearing the suit.

I like to play with the idea that Dick Dauntless is really Dick Deadeye from HMS Pinafore before he lost his good looks. Think about it - Dick Deadeye feels forced to be a villain because he's ugly and has a villainous sounding name - Dauntless is good-looking and has a heroic name, but everything he does is villainous.

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