Yeomen of the Guard 2012 BBC Proms Gilbert&Sullivan

Leigh Melrose baritone (Sir Richard Cholmondeley)
Andrew Kennedy tenor (Colonel Fairfax)
Lisa Milne soprano (Elsie Maynard)
Victoria Simmonds mezzo-soprano (Phoebe Meryll)
Felicity Palmer mezzo-soprano (Dame Carruthers)
Mary Bevan soprano (Kate)
Mark Richardson bass-baritone (Sergeant Meryll)
Tom Randle tenor (Leonard Meryll)
Mark Stone baritone (Jack Point)
Toby Stafford-Allen baritone (Wilfred Shadbolt)
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Jane Glover conductor
Martin Duncan stage director

[@anthonypowick97]

The singing in this version is superb ,well worth a view !

[@karldelavigne8134]

This has been missing from KZbin for years. Thank you for the upload.

[@dabedwards]

This is a superb performance with great singers who really know how to act in a modern style with none of that Victorian proclaiming which tainted the reputation of these works. What´s more, the semi-staging seems more effective than a full blown production might have been. And what music! As in Mozart, there are moments, maybe just a couple of bars, which are unbearably exquisite (the female trio at the end 2.11.25), and other sequences which rival the greatest moments of opera. The arrival of the executioner in Act 1 (1.12.05), and the opening of Act 2 are fantastic.

[@byronarnason6006]

Just shy of the Holy Trinity, no other triumvirate rivals the G&S&Carte juggernaut. Even Churchill marveled at the exquisite manipulation of lyrics by Gilbert. Other great Brits deserve respect. Newton discovered Gravity but he could not hummm it. Maxwell described EM phenomena with his prodigious equations but he couldn't choreograph them.

[@jasonhurd4379]

The only Savoy Opera with a tragic ending.

[@jharmoni7511]

Wow, I never expected to see Tucker Carlson playing Colonel Fairfax. Fantastic.

[@robinhillyard6187]

Video/audio a bit out of sync but otherwise, sound is good.

[@dougbarker3019]

Why is Jane Glover rushing so many of the tempi?