Simon Butteriss Trailers
Draw on Sweet Night TrailerLe Grand Macabre TrailerGilbert & Sullivan: A Motley Pair Trailer
Draw on Sweet Night TrailerLe Grand Macabre TrailerGilbert & Sullivan: A Motley Pair Trailer
Total trailers found: 6
07 September 2015
Composer John Wilbye spent his entire working life in the employ of Sir and Lady Kytson at Hengrave Hall in Suffolk.
15 December 1999
For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work, "Princess Ida", receives lukewarm press.
19 November 2011
Premiered in Stockholm in 1978, the work is based on a play by Michel de Ghelderode (1898-1962) and unfolds in an imaginary land inspired by the famous Dutch painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Nekrotzar, the Grand Macabre, announces the end of the world; but in a land ruled by eros, alcohol and corruption, his plan to unleash the Apocalypse bursts like a soap bubble.
26 July 1980
Opening with the first day of rehearsals of the London production of "Sweeney Todd", this ninety-minute documentary focuses on the rehearsal process with the musical's director, composer and actors.
11 August 2006
As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot.
08 September 2010
Simon Butteriss' in-depth look at the works of Gilbert & Sullivan, the story of the first lyricist-composer double-act who sought to transform the Victorian music halls.