Organization

The Grange Festival

Singer

Baritone

John Savourin

Sir Richard Cholmondley

Tenor

Nick Pritchard

Colonel Fairfax

Bass-baritone

Graeme Broadbent

Sgt Meryll

Nicholas Crawley

Wilfred Shadbolt

Soprano

Ellie Laugharne

Elsie Maynard

Contralto

Heather Shipp

Dame Carruthers

Mezzo-soprano

Angela Simkin

Phœbe Meryll

Stage director

Christopher Luscombe

Conductor

John K. Andrews

Lighting designer

Paul Pyant

Costume designer

Simon Higlett

Set designer

Choreographer

Ewan Jones

David Webb

Leonard Meryll

Orchestra

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

English

The Yeomen of the Guard

Northington-Alresford

United Kingdom

The Grange

The Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan,A

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Approved

Set in the Tower of London, Gilbert and Sullivan’s 14th collaboration is their most emotionally engaging, tragedy and despair mixing with trademark wit and satire. Generally considered Sullivan’s finest, grandest score, it tells of a broken love affair between a Merryman (the jester Jack Point) and his Maid (strolling singer Elsie Maynard) whose affections are ruthlessly re-directed elsewhere. Christopher Luscombe (Candide, Falstaff and Pagliacci) directs, John Andrews (Albert Herring and Precipice) conducts, Simon Higlett (Falstaff) designs, and the extensive cast brings together an impressive roster of British vocal talent, including Ellie Laugharne (Susanna and Elisa Doolittle) as Elsie, Nick Pritchard (Henry Crawford in Mansfield Park) as Colonel Fairfax, Graeme Broadbent as Sergeant Meryll, Angela Simkin (Meg Page and Hermia) as Phoebe Meryll and Heather Shipp as the indomitable Dame Carruthers. We place The Yeomen of the Guard high in the pantheon of great British operettas.

The Yeomen of the Guard by Sullivan, From (2022/2022), Directed by Christopher Luscombe,, Conductor John K. Andrews, The Grange, Northington-Alresford, United Kingdom

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