Oh Mad Delight! is a perfect introduction to Opera, Theater and Gilbert & Sullivan. Here are some
useful links to help teachers find information related to the film:
The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
Find everything you ever wanted to know about Gilbert & Sullivan! Read all the operas they wrote together or apart, find
music files of each song, read books about the duo, view galleries with photos and posters or learn about the Gilbert &
Sullivan societies in your area!
Visit the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive.
A Source of Innocent Merriment
Glimpsed briefly in Oh Mad Delight! the Festival Youth production of The Mikado is documented in its entirety,
from auditions to the triumphant final production, in A Source of Innocent Merriment.
Witness the laughter and excitement as a group of eighty young performers stage the opera in only ten days at the International
Gilbert and Sullivan Festival!
Experience A Source of Innocent Merriment.
The Operas
In Oh Mad Delight! there are three operas that are being rehearsed. Visit these sites to learn more about them!
The Mikado
Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner of Titipu, faces a great challenge when the Mikado, Emperor of Japan, sends notice that if an
execution does not take place within the month, Ko-Ko himself will lose his head. The situation is complicated when Ko-Ko claims
to have executed the Mikado's son; and to save the lives of his friends and himself, he must win the hand of the sadistic,
unattractive Katisha.
The Sorcerer
In the small town of Ploverleigh, newly-weds Alexis Poindextre and Aline Sangazure wish that everyone could enjoy the pure and
lasting happiness of marriage, and so they hire a sorcerer, to distribute an elixir of love amongst the wedding guests. The
results are disastrous as the townspeople begin falling in love with no regard for age, rank, social position or physical
attraction.
The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance tells the story of an ill-hearing nurse maid who accidentally apprentices Frederic to a pirate. Upon
Frederic's release from his indentures, he sets off to destroy the pirate band, but his plans are interrupted when the Pirate
King reveals that an ingenious paradox binds Frederic to the pirate band for life.
Prisoner of War
Captured and imprisoned by Nazi forces in World War II, the now retired D'Oyly Carte member, Trevor Hills, found release while
staging Gilbert and Sullivan Productions in the prison camp Stalag 383.
Join In Conversation With Trevor Hills as he recounts his experience with G&S as a prisoner of war.
Click here to read more about Stalag 383 and Trevor Hills.
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