Who is Iolanthe?

Date:         Wed, 5 Apr 1995 11:01:00 EDT
 From: "Gerald M. Phillips, Ph.D." 
 To: Multiple recipients of list QC-L 
 In-Reply-To:  PEL AT BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU -- Wed, 5 Apr 1995 10:52:30 EDT
 
 Iolanthe or The Peer and the Peri
 
 A very ornate and subtle operetta about Iolanthe, daughter of the queen
 of the fairies sentenced to live at the bottom of the river because she
 had a son, Strephon, with a mortal.  Poor Strephon is an immortal fairy
 down to his waste, where he turns human, an altogether undesirable state
 of affairs and the plot is, as usual, tortuous.  There are two videocassette
 versions, one the Brent Walker PBS, the other Stratford Festival/Canada.
 
 The operetta contains such things as the Nightmare Song, Good Morrow Good
 Mother, and March of the Fools/Peers.
 
 It ends with everyone living happily ever after.  You can find the digital
 libretto at the Gilbert and Sullivan home page, or I have it here and
 can upload it to an ftp site if you have the capability to receive.
 
 Iolanthe contain's some of Sullivan's best music, and the Nightmare song
 is one of Gilbert's funniest.
 
 Now in serious guise
 GMP

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