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• Feb 16th 2004 to Feb 21st 2004

Event Details

• Group: Banbury Operatic Society

Address

• Address:
  
  Wykham Hall, Banbury School, Ruskin Road, Banbury, Oxfordshire
• Location: South East

Contact Details

• Contact: 01295 2678857 or bos [at] oxford [dot] communigate [dot] co [dot] uk

Extra Information

• Notes: Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant. The only Gilbert & Sullivan opera written in 3 acts, and in blank verse. and in blank verse. It is based on a long Tennyson poem and an earlier Gilbert farce.This eighth G&S opera concerns the war between the sexes. Overly serious students and professors at a women’s university (women) defy a marriage-by-force ultimatum by a militaristic king and his testosterone-laden court (men). The men get in touch with their feminine side in their attempts to woo the ladies.The score is majestic, and some people consider the libretto contains some of Gilbert’s funniest lines.The story of the opera is driven by the love of Prince Hilarion for Princess Ida, daughter of King Gama, to whom he was married in babyhood. The Princess, however, is absorbed by her ideals and responsibilities as head of a women’s college which endeavors to educate women to be the ruling sex. Her husband and his friends infiltrate the castle and ultimately the men, led by Hilarion’s father, King Hildebrand, stage a full-scale invasion. The princess is ultimately unsuccessful in her noble aims, and in the end surrenders to her prince.
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