GILBERT AND SULLIVAN OPERAS
Sir,-After listening with growing impatience over the last few weeks to the NBS presentation of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, I found a recent fiasco just too much. Act 1 of Ruddigore was airily dismissed in ten minutes and then we were abruptly bumped into Act 2 of The Mikado on which some 20 miautes were spent. To hear these charming operas spoiled by thoughtless presentation is infuriating to the G. and 8S. enthusiast, and quite confusing to any listener not knowing them well. Why cannot we have one opera in its entirety for an evening’s entertainment?
DISGUSTED
(Howick).
(The official reply to this complaint is that the agreement with the holders of the Gilbert and Sullivan copyright stipulates that no more than a specified period shall be broadcast on all NBS sstations in any one week. It is not always possible therefore to fit into this time the complete recordings of some of the operas or to avoid using excerpts only on_ those occasions when the balance of time available is or eet zag for the broadcast of a full act.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 361, 24 May 1946, Page 5
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186GILBERT AND SULLIVAN OPERAS New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 361, 24 May 1946, Page 5
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