Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury
1875
The first of thirteen comic operas by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan opened in London to instant acclaim. Their collaboration would produce HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, and The Pirates of Penzance - satirizing British institutions with tunes the institutions themselves could not help humming. It was the grandfather of the modern musical.
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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