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	Iolanthe
		Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri is a comic Gilbert and Sullivan operetta in two acts.
		As a result of the pleading of several of the fairies, the Queen of the Fairies agrees to pardon the fairy Iolanthe for her past sin -- that of having married a mortal[?].
		Iolanthe rises from the stream that has been her home in exile, and is surrounded by her former friends.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/io/Iolanthe.html (567 words)

	Iolanthe
		A bunch of fairies discuss that it is 25 years since Iolanthe, "the life and soul of Fairyland", was banished by the Fairy Queen for having committed the sin of marrying a mortal.
		Iolanthe is pardoned and after she rises from the stream where she has been working out her sentence of penal servitude she tells that she has a son, Strephon, a half fairy, who is in love with Phyllis, a ward in Chancery.
		Iolanthe gives them both her blessing and reveals that the Lord Chancellor is her husband and Strephon's father.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~melbear/iolanthe.htm (1207 words)

	Opera - Iolanthe
		This punishment Iolanthe has chosen to undergo at the bottom of a stream so as to be near her son Strephon who is twenty-four years of age and of whom his father knows nothing.
		As Iolanthe is immortal, she still looks about seventeen and it is difficult to believe that she is the mother of the full-grown Arcadian shepherd, who appears playing on a flageolet.
		Iolanthe tries to dissipate her son's dejection by reminding him that the Queen of the fairies has promised him special protection.
	www.oldandsold.com /opera/opera-63.shtml (770 words)

	Iolanthe
		Iolanthe remarks that she has a son, who is a fairy down to the waist and a mortal from the waist down.
		Iolanthe then reveals that the Lord Chancellor is her husband and Strephon’s father.
		Iolanthe reveals herself in order to make her son happy.
	www.seanet.com /~thompson/gsgirl/iolanthe.html (944 words)

	Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri @ Nashville Opera, Nashville: opera review
		Iolanthe is a fairy who committed the crime of marrying a mortal.
		After being pardoned from her twenty-five year banishment by the Fairy Queen, Iolanthe reveals that she has a son, Strephon, who is half fairy (his upper half) and half mortal.
		Iolanthe is not often produced in the United States, although it is hard to understand why.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/iolanthe_0206.htm (672 words)

	Iolanthe
		Iolanthe is a timeless, classic Gilbert and Sullivan operetta about fairies who fall in love with humans.
		Iolanthe has been exiled from the fairy world for marrying a mortal.
		Iolanthe returns and presents her son, Strephon, who is half-fairy and half-human.
	www.oobr.com /top/volTen/twentynine/0501iolanthe.htm (546 words)

	Iolanthe (Gilbert & Suillivan) - The Guide to Musical Theatre
		When Strephon turns to his mother for comfort, Phyllis misinterprets their intimacy (as a fairy Iolanthe has not physically aged beyond a certain point) and, believing him to be unfaithful, she renounces her love for him.
		Although he protests that Iolanthe is his mother, his claims are met with derision by Phyllis and the peers (who are unaware of his parentage) and even the intervention of the Queen of the Fairies cannot persuade them otherwise.
		At Strephon's request, Iolanthe puts their case to the Lord Chancellor, but has to disguise herself before doing so as, unbeknown to him, he is her mortal husband and she is forbidden to enlighten him under pain of death.
	www.nodanw.com /shows_i/iolanthe.htm (816 words)

	Iolanthe by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
		To everyone's surprise Iolanthe had spent the twenty-five years of her banishment at the bottom of a stream, but on hearing the Queen's summons she emerges from the water clad in water-weeds, which soon fall from her, and she appears clothed once again as a fairy with a diamond coronet on her head.
		Phyllis is horrified at what she hears, mistaking Iolanthe for a rival, and when Strephon tries to explain to them that I olanthe is his mother they naturally refuse to believe that so young and beautiful a girl can possibly be the mother of a man of nearly five-and-twenty.
		Iolanthe is then forced to break her fairy vow and reveals herself to him as the wife whom he thought had died childless many years before.
	math.boisestate.edu /gas/iolanthe/html/intro.html (2823 words)

	Iolanthe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On condition that Iolanthe left her husband, never to see him again, the Queen of the Fairies relented, merely sending Iolanthe into life long exile.
		Iolanthe enters and holds a tender conversation with her son.
		They persuade Iolanthe to appeal to the Lord Chancellor on their behalf, and she does so, revealing that she is his wife.
	www-users.york.ac.uk /~socs46/shows/iolanthe/iolanthe.htm (521 words)

	Iolanthe
		The fairies all found Fairyland rather dull after Iolanthe had gone and they kept on begging the fairy queen for a reprieve, but the queen was adamant - Iolanthe had married a mortal and she must take the consequences.
		Iolanthe was delighted at being re-united with her son and they went about a lot together.
		Iolanthe was deputed to tackle the Lord Chancellor, which she did with success (and a bit of shock treatment); the Lord Chancellor suggested a neat way of amending the fairy law about marriage to mortals, so the fairies married the peers and they all live happily ever afterwards.
	www.saos.org.uk /productions/sharedsynopsis/iolanthe.htm (609 words)

	Iolanthe Review 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri, is the title of the work performed, showing a firm adherence to the lucky initial letter that has been titularly associated with all the greatest triumphs of the composer and the librettist.
		"Iolanthe, or the Peer and the Peri", was first produced at the Savoy Theatre, in London, in November, 1882.
		There is only one drawback to their happiness, namely, the absence from amongst them of their sweet sister, Iolanthe, who has been banished for the last five and twenty years for having married a mortal.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~melbear/downunder/iolanthereview1.htm (1965 words)

	Iolanthe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		You see, this particular fairy band is mourning the absence of their sister Iolanthe (Ann Kitteredge), reluctantly banished by the Queen (Patti Allison) after she, in defiance of Fairy Law, married a mortal.
		The Queen summons Iolanthe from the frog pond that has been her damp prison for the past 25 years, and learns that the erring fairy has not only married, but become a mother.
		Iolanthe's son, Strephon (Robert Gallagher), who is half fairy ---the upper half--and half human-- the lower -- has grown to manhood and pledged his love to Phyllis (Cheryl Martin), a ward in chancery.
	www.stagepage.info /reviews/iolanthe.html (547 words)

	Iolanthe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Iolanthe, whodespite her age still appears to be 17, rises from the depths of the river where she has spent quarter of a century in order that she can be near her son Strephon, an Arcadian poet who appears to the consternation of the fairies.
		Iolanthe and Strephon sing of their love for one another but are overheard by Phyllis and the peers who assume that he is conducting and affair with a 17 year old!
		Iolanthe appears to embrace her soon to be daughter-in-law and the two lovers ask her to intercede with the Lord Chancellor.
	www.themoose.co.uk /opera/pages/iolanthe.htm (993 words)

	Iolanthe
		IOLANTHE Mistress of the Revels
		But Iolanthe took pity on the young man, and she knew that she loved him. She convinced the others to let him go, and so he woke up hours later from what he thought was a pleasant nap, and returned to his dwelling near the university.
		Iolanthe's son, Strephon, was a handsome shepherd lad who loved a beautiful maiden named Phyllis. With the help of the Faerie Queen, he eventually became Prime Minister of England.
	daisyshobbithole.homestead.com /iolanthe.html (448 words)

	Denmead Operatic Society - Archives - Iolanthe 1997
		Iolanthe is a delectable combination of political satire and fairy magic, with two sides - mortal and immortal - held in a unique balance, but resolved in love!
		Twenty five years previous to the action of the opera, Iolanthe, a Fairy, had committed the capital crime of marrying a mortal.
		Iolanthe attempts to comfort her son, but Phyllis is horrified to see Strephon talking to a young woman and accuses him of unfaithfulness.
	www.hants.gov.uk /denmeadoperatic/NewWebsite/Arch_Iolanthe1997.html (945 words)

	Iolanthe continues a rich Gilbert & Sullivan tradition
		Nevertheless, when Strephon comes to claim her, the Lord Chancellor, to the House of Lords' pleasure, declines his request on the premise that a mere shepherd is not a match for a Ward of Court.
		His mother tries to soothe him; nevertheless, Iolanthe, just like other fairies, appears to be a beautiful, 17-year old girl, and Phyllis believes that Strephon is being unfaithful to her.
		Iolanthe is supposed to be an opera, however, the space available in La Sala de Puerto Rico is barely sufficient even for a small-scale play, let alone for a real opera.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V115/N19/iolanthe.19a.html (772 words)

	The Savoy Company
		Strephon is crushed and Iolanthe tries to comfort her son in a tender moment.
		This is misconstrued as a fling with a young girl and Phyllis, in anger, decides to marry one of the Lords.
		She is condemned to die by the Fairy Queen who subsequently discovers that all the fairies have fallen in love and married all the peers.
	www.savoy.org /past_iolanthe_summary.asp (316 words)

	Eastleigh Operatic & Musical Society - Iolanthe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But Strephon is also half a fairy, down to the waist (his mother, Iolanthe, is a fairy), and Phyllis is also a Ward in Chancery (her guardian is the Lord Chancellor).
		Iolanthe had been banished from fairyland by the Fairy Queen for having married a mortal (Strephon's father), but she is reprieved at the beginning of the operetta, and rejoins her fairy sisters.
		Phyllis overhears Strephon being comforted by the young-looking Iolanthe and thinks he is being unfaithful, so she becomes engaged to the two lords Tolloller and Mountararat.
	www.hants.gov.uk /eoms/iolanthe.html (479 words)

	Iolanthe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Iolanthe's been spending a lot of time at the bottom of the pond lately.
		Iolanthe is made from sparse, curly, tipped orange-gold mohair.
		Iolanthe is a "1 of 1" artist bear - none of my bears are exactly the same, as they are all hand-stitched and have their own unique character.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /bearsbyheatherfrench/iolanthe.html (176 words)

	Mill Hill Amateur Operatic Society
		As a result of the pleading of several of the fairies, the Queen of the Fairies agrees to pardon the fairy Iolanthe for her past sin - that of having married a mortal.
		When her friends depart, Iolanthe meets Strephon, and hears from him of his love for the Lord Chancellor's current ward, Phyllis.
		Strephon is despondent, as the Lord Chancellor has forbidden them to marry - partly because he himself wishes to marry Phyllis.
	www.mhaos.com /iolanthe.html (526 words)

	Show Business Weekly: Review: Iolanthe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Iolanthe, written by composer Sir Arthur Sullivan and lyricist and book-writer W.S. Gilbert in 1882, is not as well remembered today as other Gilbert and Sullivan operas such as HMS Pinafore, Mikado and Pirates of Penzance.
		Phyllis, a fairy, was banished from fairyland by the Queen Fairy for committing the deadly sin of marrying a mortal.
		Iolanthe is recommended for any fan of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas, but a theatergoer who is unfamiliar with these shows might consider beginning his foray into early English musical comedy with a more well-known and well-liked operetta such as HMS Pinafore or Pirates of Penzance.
	www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/262/Iolanthe.shtml (558 words)

	Iolanthe by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
		"Iolanthe", or "The Peer and the Peri", opened at the Savoy Theatre on November 25, 1882, three nights after the final performance of Patience at the same theatre, and ran for 398 performances.
		Both Gilbert and Sullivan were at the height of their creative powers in 1882, and many people feel that Iolanthe, their seventh work together, is the most perfect of their collaborations.
		Phyllis does not know that Strephon is half fairy (his upper half — his legs are mortal!) and when she sees Strephon kissing a seemingly young woman, she assumes the worst.
	math.boisestate.edu /gas/iolanthe/html/index.html (611 words)

	STAGE REVIEW: Iolanthe -- Reality and Fantasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Though on the surface Iolanthe appears to be merely about a band of misguided fairies, it is the fantasy aspect that takes the production to a higher level of truth about the interactions of the characters.
		Because Iolanthe is a fantasy and a satire, it is very interesting to watch the quirks and qualms and sheer absurdity of the characters unfold.
		Cemocan Yesil plays his Strephon as the conflicted half-fairy, half-mortal with a due amount of angst at being manipulated by so many external forces (he is not allowed to marry Phyllis because of the House of Lords, but then he is placed at the center of the body by the fairies).
	www-tech.mit.edu /V119/N58/Iolanthe.58a.html (541 words)

	Amazon.com: Gilbert & Sullivan - Iolanthe / Forrester, Donkin, Stratford Festival: DVD: Maureen Forrester,Eric ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Iolanthe was at once human and funny, moving and satirical.
		Maureen Forrester as Queen of the Fairies/The Diva, Eric Donkin as Lord Chancellor, Marie Baron as Phyllis, Paul Massel as Strephon, Katharina Megli as Iolanthe, Stephen Beamish as Earl of Mountararat, Douglas Chamberlain as Earl Tolloller, Avo Kittask as Pvt.
		Willis, Allison Grant as Celia, Karen Skidmore as Leila, Karen Wood as Babs, Maureen Forrester as Queen of the Fairies/The Diva, Eric Donkin as Lord Chancellor, Marie Baron as Phyllis, Paul Massel as Strephon, Katharina Megli as Iolanthe, Stephen Beamish as Earl of Mountararat, Douglas Chamberlain as Earl Tolloller, Avo Kittask as Pvt.
	www.amazon.com /Gilbert-Sullivan-Iolanthe-Forrester-Stratford/dp/1569383472 (2028 words)

	2007: Iolanthe
		However she is a ward of Court and may not marry without the Lord Chancellor’s consent – and he considers a mere shepherd quite unsuitable for Phyllis.
		Eventually he admits to her that Iolanthe is in fact a fairy, and therefore looks much younger than she is. Phyllis is delighted that there is an innocent explanation after all and begs Iolanthe to plead with the Lord Chancellor for his consent to the lovers’ marriage.
		Iolanthe refuses and reveals that the Chancellor is no other than her husband – and Strephon’s father – but that she may not by the Queen’s command see or speak to him again, on pain of death.
	website.lineone.net /~philip.de.voil/shows/2007/2007.htm (687 words)

	The Carl Rosa Opera Company
		Iolanthe is a parody of High Victorian romantic drama, which still has a remarkably contemporary relevance today.
		It is very clear from studying Gilbert’s diaries that he loathed the Establishment, but ironically be spent most of his life trying to be an accepted part of it (he was refused entry to the Royal Yacht Society forty times during his life).
		Iolanthe was the second production to be presented at the new Savoy Theatre, built especially for the Gilbert and Sullivan operas by Carte.
	www.carlrosaopera.co.uk /productions/iolanthe/directornotes.asp (681 words)

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