This book charts the life of Arthur Sullivan—the best loved and most widely performed British composer in history. While he is best known for his comic opera

A full biography of a composer whose work extended far beyond the operettas for which he is known today.

Arthur Sullivan is best known as W. S. Gilbert's collaborator in the Savoy Operas, However, Sullivan was far from being simply a composer of light operettas. At

THE STORY: Joseph Porter heads Pinafore Pictures amid a swirl of recognizable Hollywood types: Louhedda Hopsons, a gossip columnist; a veritable chain gang of i