The internet provides a wealth of resources for those interested in learning more about W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan and their operettas, including both websites and videos!

Two excellent website resources include The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, at: http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/, and Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive

The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive describes itself as a website “devoted to the operas and other works of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan … The Archive … includes a variety of Gilbert and Sullivan related items, including clip art, librettos, plot summaries, pictures of the original Gilbert and Sullivan stars, song scores, midi and mpeg audio files, and newsletter articles.”  It further describes itself as the “‘home’ site for all Gilbert and Sullivan related activities on the Internet,” and states that “links from the Archive lead to many other Gilbert and Sullivan sites, and to other opera and arts related Internet sites.”

Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Wikipedia is the multilingual, internet based, free-content encyclopedia project, written collaboratively primarily by anonymous volunteers who contribute to the on-line encyclopedia freely.  Among the thousands of articles in Wikipedia are articles about Gilbert and Sullivan, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan, as well as articles about each of their operettas.

Operetta Resource Links

The links for each operetta, at both The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive and on Wikipedia, are included below:

Gilbert & Sullivan Videos

Gilbert and Sullivan experts and enthusiasts have created numerous excellent videos, ranging from introductions to the famous due to in-depth discussions of their works and their impact on our culture.

These videos include discussions of Gilbert and Sullivan’s lives, both as individuals and as partners.  They provide perspective British society and the Victorian world of the late nineteenth century out of which Gilbert and Sullivan’s works came. 

Many of the videos illustrate what they are describing with wonderful performances of the works, including performances by the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company.

They also discuss Gilbert and Sullivan’s significant role in the creation of modern musical theater and their pervasive, ongoing influence in popular culture.