Royal Doulton's Gilbert and Sullivan Series: Six Characters, Three Ope

Royal Doulton's Gilbert and Sullivan Series: Six Characters, Three Operettas

Gilbert and Sullivan wrote fourteen operas between 1871 and 1896. More than a century later they remain the most frequently performed body of comic opera in the world. Royal Doulton did what it did better than any pottery of its age: it turned the cast into porcelain.

Ed shows six of them in this video — three pairs, three operettas:

Colonel Fairfax and Elsie Maynard — The Yeomen of the Guard

Ruth the Pirate Maid and The Pirate King — The Pirates of Penzance

Ko-Ko and Yum-Yum — The Mikado