Ages Ago by Gilbert and Clay

From "The Illustrated London News"
January 15, 1870

Ages Ago
by

W.S. Gilbert & Frederic Clay

November 22, 1869
Royal Gallery of Illustration

An operetta with music by Frederic Clay. This operetta was a great success, making Gilbert the most important playwright at the Gallery of Illustration. Features a picture gallery in an old castle, with ancestors stepping out of the picture frames. This theme was to appear again in the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Ruddigore.

Ages Ago Web Opera

Features all of the music from this opera as MIDI files — over 38 minutes of music, with full lyrics and spoken dialogue. Sing-along with this forgotten opera, and discover it for yourself. Sequenced by Ron Orenstein.

Intro duction, by Andrew Crowther.
Plot Synopsis
Libretto as Word Document, PDF File, or in ASCII format.
Painting of The Picture Gallery from an advertisement for the opera.
A new printing of the AGES AGO vocal score is now available from Scott Farrell. It includes a number of corrections to errors that have remained in the score since its original publication and now the score is available for performing groups.

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