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Sir Arthur Sullivan found the success of the operettas personally frustrating. He aspired to what he considered to be greater things, and many of his contemporaries, up to and including Queen Victoria, encouraged his ambitions to create serious grand opera on epic English themes. Sullivan did create a cantata, ''The Golden Legend;'' an oratorio, ''The Light of the World;'' and an opera, ''Ivanhoe,'' all obscure and rarely performed. The Savoy operas, however, remain popular to this day. Gilbert famously quipped that Sullivan aspired to be a Bach, but was only an Offenbach. However, part of the pleasure audiences take from Gilbert and Sullivan comes from the contrast between Sullivan's refined music and Gilbert's irreverent words.
Sir Arthur Sullivan found the success of the operettas personally frustrating. He aspired to what he considered to be greater things, and many of his contemporaries, up to and including Queen Victoria, encouraged his ambitions to create serious grand opera on epic English themes. Sullivan did create a cantata, ''The Golden Legend;'' an oratorio, ''The Light of the World;'' and an opera, ''Ivanhoe,'' all obscure and rarely performed. The Savoy operas, however, remain popular to this day. Gilbert famously quipped that Sullivan aspired to be a Bach, but was only an Offenbach. However, part of the pleasure audiences take from Gilbert and Sullivan comes from the contrast between Sullivan's refined music and Gilbert's irreverent words.
In the early years the United States did not recognize British copyrights. Unauthorized productions of works such as ''Pinafore'' were mounted in the United States almost simultaneously with the first British productions, and were great successes.
==Famous Works==
==Famous Works==