Princess Ida (DVD) [videorecording] / Goldcrest Films International ; Moving Picture Company Ltd. ; produced by Judith De Paul ; presented by George Walker ; staged by Terry Gilbert ; directed by Dave Heather.
British television recording of 1982 London stage performance of the operetta. Special features: an introduction by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ; "Making of" featurette ; Gilbert & Sullivan profile ; Princess Ida libretto. Hosted by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Frank Gorshin, Neil Howlett, Nan Christie, Laurence Dale, Anne Collins, Bernard Dickerson, Richard Jackson ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Alexander Faris, conductor ; Ambrosian Opera Chorus ; John McCarthy, chorus master.
Summary:
Operetta in which Hilarion, awaiting the arrival of Princess Ida, who was betrothed to him twenty years earlier at the age of one, learns that she has renounced mankind and formed a women's university from which men are strictly barred.
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