or The Peer and the Peri An opera in two acts by GILBERT AND SULLIVAN starring Derek Hammond-Stroud Richard Van Allen
Alexander Oliver , Kate Flowers Anne Collins with the Ambrosian Opera Chorus and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Faris
Banished for 25 years for marrying a mortal, a beautiful fairy, Iolanthe, returns from her watery prison at the bottom of the pond still only 17 years old. But her youth and beauty cause trouble for her half-mortal son Strephon. His fiancee, Phyllis, a ward in Chancery, refuses to believe lolanthe is his mother and breaks off their engagement....
Directed by DAVE HEATHER
Produced by JUDITH DE PAUL A Brent Walker production
(There is a series about Gilbert and Sullivan on Fridays on Radio 2)
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