Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe

MasterVoices concludes its 2022-23 season on May 3 at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium with a concert staging of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera <i>Iolanthe</i>, directed and conducted by Ted Sperling. <i>Iolanthe</i>, with “one of Sullivan’s finest scores” (the <i>New York Times</i>), is a battle of the sexes pitting members of Britain’s House of Lords against the Fairy Queen and her kin, yet its themes are supremely relatable today; it tells of how a minority of landed gentry make rules that dominate the majority, how boorish masculinity disrupts and dominates a tranquil civilization of women, and how all that may still lead to surprising results.

Conducted and directed by Ted Sperling, starring David Garrison, Christine Ebersole, Shereen Ahmed, Schyler Vargas, Ashley Fabian, Santino Fontana, Jason Danieley, and Phillip Boykin.