[G&S-6] I 14: Act II - When all night long a chap remains Video by Brent Walker. No copyright infringement is intended.
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@cz21656 ай бұрын
What a great voice. The lyrics are still relevant in 2024!
@oddish43523 жыл бұрын
That reminds me of the old story of HMS Pinafore... during a performance, some roustabouts tried to steal the scenery. They were chased off empty-handed by the show's cast and crew in part because Gilbert, a stickler for realism, had outfitted the actors playing the ship's Marines with real bayonets.
@ARCtheCartoonMaster2 жыл бұрын
LMAO, that is so funny!
@norsewolf13643 жыл бұрын
The lyrics are wonderful, the diction too. Love G&S!
@verdew81816 жыл бұрын
He sounds and looks so great it's easy to see why the Fairy Queen is tempted to fall down and worship him.
@fritzbasset8645 Жыл бұрын
Best I've heard since Kenneth Sanford on the DC recording - also heard him in person.
@angelacooper2661 Жыл бұрын
I would like to see this sung outside the House of Commons at Westminster! Perhaps the members of the House might sit up and take notice!
@pauldockree9915 Жыл бұрын
a year ago. and vote just as their leaders tell them to.
@MichaelDG20232 жыл бұрын
I am being called back for Willis and Mountararat. I have four days to prepare two arias, a trio, a quartet, and a bunch of dialogue. I am grateful to you for these uploads!
@MrsSedley8 ай бұрын
The great, much-missed Richard Van Allan. Please credit. We've also just lost the wonderful Keel Watson, who sang Private Willis in the ENO revival of Iolanthe.
@williamyoung66012 жыл бұрын
Played Private Willis in 1966.
@willam19925 жыл бұрын
wounderful
@pauldockree99153 жыл бұрын
They have got to leave that brain outside. If they have got any.
@ChristianGeil05 жыл бұрын
When all night long a chap remains On sentry-go, to chase monotony He exercises of his brains, That is, assuming that he's got any. Though never nurtured in the lap Of luxury, yet I admonish you, I am an intellectual chap, And think of things that would astonish you. I often think it's comical - Fal, lal, la! How Nature always does contrive - Fal, lal, la! That every boy and every gal That’s born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative! Fal, lal, la! When in that House M.P.'s divide, If they’ve a brain and cerebellum, too, They’ve got to leave that brain outside, And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to. But then the prospect of a lot Of dull M. P.’s in close proximity, All thinking for themselves, is what No man can face with equanimity. Then let’s rejoice with loud Fal la - Fal la la! That Nature always does contrive - Fal lal la! That every boy and every gal That’s born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative! Fal lal la!
@itscleto89615 жыл бұрын
Christian Geil thanks very helpful!!
@philiplancaster96684 жыл бұрын
@@itscleto8961 To which I would add...... Then let's rejoice with loud Fal la - Fal la la! That Nature always does contrive - Fal la la! That every boy and every girl That's born into the world down here Is either a sour Remainer Or else a swivel-eyed Brexiteer!
@angelacooper2661 Жыл бұрын
Can you imagine this in the Palace of Westminster? What would Sir Keir Starmer think given that the Labour Party didn't exist in those days? Uproar in the House!!!
@deewesthill1213Ай бұрын
Boy and gal, liberal or conservative? -- that's so binary! 😃
@ARCtheCartoonMaster4 жыл бұрын
The cheesy green-screen effect reminds me of that nursery rhymes video Caddicarus reviewed.
@tomshea83823 жыл бұрын
The artwork is bitchin' though, and I would love to see an Iolanthe that took place on scenery designed to look like pen-and-ink drawings. Or maybe watercolors for the first act, since the fairies own the natural world, and then pen-and-ink B/W for the second since we're in Punch-land. In any case they must have had a shortage of film because they ignored all the rallantandro in the score.
@figaro2489 жыл бұрын
Wonderful performance! who is the singer and where did the performance take place? Fa la la...
@tomdissonance9 жыл бұрын
figaro248 it was never a staged performance, as such. it's from a film version of the opera made by the Brent Walker company in 1982. more info: gasdisc.oakapplepress.com/iolwalk.htm
@jamesb.89407 жыл бұрын
No mention of Pte. Willis in the cast list, alas :(
@tbessie6 жыл бұрын
It seems to be the same guy who was in the TV version of The Mikado - "Richard Van Allan"... kzbin.info/www/bejne/boTOgIqumMetpJI
@peterwalters69246 жыл бұрын
Hello, Yes you're right - this is most certainly Richard Van Allan. I saw him regularly when he was a principal bass at English National Opera. A splendid performer!
@chriscann76273 жыл бұрын
@@peterwalters6924 @figaro248 - yes, it is the very great and sadly lamented bass Richard van Allen, one of the great ENO singers from the 70s to the 90s. He famously created the role of Pooh-Bah in Jonathan Miller's famous black-and-white Mikado at ENO and was a regular there until his retirement. They also did a few special productions for him, most notably a rare staging of Massenet's gorgeous Don Quixote.
@brianappleby5112 Жыл бұрын
Must be Richard van Allen singing this? Superb.
@bacon-wrappedrainbows75653 жыл бұрын
Who is the singer and what production/year is this from?
@tomshea83822 жыл бұрын
The singer is Richard van Allan, who also sang Pooh-Bah in the ENO Mikado with Eric Idle.
@rosecurran90483 жыл бұрын
I think Gilbert was an incredible lyricist. Has anyone noticed you can take the final comment two ways? Either a "little" liberal, etc. - meaning a "little bit" Liberal - or a "little" Liberal, meaning a "little tot or child" Liberal, etc. Do you think he meant it either way? I do!
@dolvaran3 жыл бұрын
Since the song refers to children being born one of each, I think the sentiment is pretty clear!
@angelacooper2661 Жыл бұрын
This should be sung outside the House of Commons at Westminster!
@emilyhanna-grazebrook53446 ай бұрын
you seem to have missed off the end of act 1, it's a very important piece of the opera. Namely the bit where the fairies put Strephen into power as a left leaning politian inthe 1800s - all under their spell. Guilbert and Sullivan is excellent satire. To leave out bits isn't really fair. It's more clever than that- the British know how to laugh at themselves
@japhfo3 жыл бұрын
That's not Grenadier Guards tunic, I'm afraid. Rookie error
@edronuk76563 жыл бұрын
It looks pretty close to me. Try comparing to images on Google or in reference books