Iolanthe (Libretto)

伊奧朗特》是一部喜歌劇，由亞瑟-沙利文作曲，W-S-吉伯特作詞。它是薩沃伊歌劇之一，也是吉伯特和沙利文 14 部合作歌劇中的第七部。在歌劇中，仙女伊奧朗特被逐出仙境，因為她嫁給了凡人；這是仙女法律所禁止的。她的兒子施特雷豐是一位阿卡迪亞牧羊人，想娶大法官辦公室的女看守菲利斯為妻。貴族院的所有成員也都想娶菲利斯。當菲利斯看到斯特裡豐擁抱一位年輕女子時（她並不知道那是他的母親--不朽的仙女都很年輕），她做出了最壞的打算，並引發了貴族與仙女之間的激烈對抗。這部歌劇諷刺了英國政府、法律和社會的許多方面。仙女與同齡人之間的對峙是吉伯特最喜歡的主題之一：女性的寧靜文明被男性主導的世界所破壞，因為發現了凡人的愛情

作曲家: Sullivan, Arthur S.
樂器: Voice
出版社: Faber Music
原文簡介:
Iolanthe is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh of fourteen operatic collaborations by Gilbert and Sullivan. In the opera, the fairy Iolanthe has been banished from fairyland because she married a mortal; this is forbidden by fairy law. Her son, Strephon, is an Arcadian shepherd who wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. All the members of the House of Peers also want to marry Phyllis. When Phyllis sees Strephon hugging a young woman (not knowing that it is his mother – immortal fairies all appear young), she assumes the worst and sets off a climactic confrontation between the peers and the fairies. The opera satirises many aspects of British government, law and society. The confrontation between the fairies and the peers is a version of one of Gilbert's favourite themes: a tranquil civilisation of women is disrupted by a male-dominated world through the discovery of mortal love.