Trial by Jury - Opera Australia

Brilliant - wonderful singing, acting and playing. I loved it 😊

The best way to describe my reaction to this production of 'Trial by Jury': ROFLMAO 😂

Really good production

It is very difficult to create a fresh adaptation from these old classic comic operas. That was a QUITE GOOD adaptation. Bravo!

For anyone wanting to introduce a friend to opera, I can think of nothing better than this

What a delightful show! Thank you for sharing it.

Love how the authority figures in G&S operettas are portrayed as corrupt and incompetent hypocrites who bought or manipulated their way into power. When authority figures in these operettas are also charismatic and delightful (such as the Judge here, the Major General in PoP, or Sir Joseph in Pinafore), regular people are blind to their flaws and mindlessly follow them. After nearly a century and a half, it's sad that so little has changed and these portrayals of authority figures (and the public's reaction to them) remain salient and true.

Mwebale omulimo guno 👏🏾

Compared to the way a lot of people play it, Warlow also gets the "dirty old man" aspect right enough here you can BELIEVE he's the kind of man who would marry someone just to get ahead, then dump her as soon as he made it good. That's supposed to be the point of the last stanza of his song; he's TOTALLY unqualified to be impartial on this case, because he did the EXACT same thing as the plaintiff.

A lot of performances give the judge too much dignity, Warlow has gotten that, whatever his rank may be now, he is far from an honorable or moral person.

Anthony Warlow is extraordinary as the judge. Many won't realise it is the same person playing the captain in Pinafore and the Pirate King in Pirates..
This video is amazing. Unlike the accompanying Pinafore (same night and still very good) the casting here is perfect which makes for a top notch production. It goes to show how hard G&S is to pull off: you need an ensemble of great singers but also other parts where the singing needs to be highly competent but not exceptional but with excellent comic acting ability. One poorly cast role (no criticism of individuals intended) can weaken the whole show - but not the case here: the cast bounce off each other both musically and comically

Nice singing and orchestra work. But the blocking and costumes are all wrong. What we hear is Gilbert; what we see if the director's ego.

Opera Aostralia Bravo!!!

Thank you so much for uploading this and HMS Pinafore! Is there any chance you could upload Pirates of Penzance that Opera Australia performed?

I sang the Learned Judge in 1969 at the CCM performance in Cincinnati.
Such fun and memories. So long ago.
Thank you !!

A wonderfully witty interpretation of an already witty piece. Never tire of watching this. ✨💖✨🥂🍾

I'm not normally a fan of modern dress versions of G&S, but this one works!

I have the DVD of this performance, and frustratingly it does not have subtitles! Where did you find a version with subtitles?

A most exuberant and enjoyable staging of this famous G&S appetiser to the riches that were to follow. Well
done to all concerned.

Oh my! The Judge reminds me of President Biden!😱😂

Thank you so much for providing this performance! Please upload the 1995 Australian performance of Patience if you have it! I really hope this or any other uploads don't get taken down 😅

I've always loved this song! On my 44th birthday, I kept quietly cracking up as I heard in my mind that line "She may very well pass for 43 in the dusk with a light behind her"!

Rolled R's are a plague in G&S. They're not English! Neither British English nor American. They're jst noisy. English goes RUH.

Stunning, fun, clever... thank you!

Hard to believe but I played the Gentle Simple Minded Usher way back in the mid sixties. Even funnier, I remembered most of it. Thanks for letting me relive my youth with this wonderful production.

SILENCE IN COURT!!!

Outstanding performance that is such fun to watch and listen to!

Anthony Warlow is a genius, fantastic voice and a really superb actor too. Terrific in G&S but also a real,hero of Les Miserables and many other operas and musicals.

Wonderful! More please. I live on a small island off coast of Scotland and it’s very difficult to get away to the city for performances. This is such a treat. Thank you ❤

Excellent 👍

A brilliant performance, thanks for allowing the full performance, Opera Australia.

The civilised world urgently needs a good dose of Gilbert & Sullivan!

I'm assuming the reason no one laughed when he talked about his pecker is because this is Australia (and it was written in Britain) and not America where it has a different meaning,

All Hail-Gilbert & Sullivan.

Brilliant performances.

I am going to play mikado soon.

It is most unjust towards Gilbert to speak of Gilbert and Sullivan as equals. Sullivan is nothing without Gilbert, as his Ivanhoe , one of the most dreadfully dull of all operas, shows. Gilbert is a first rate comic poet, one might ay a comic genius. Sullivan is an average to mediocre composer. Gilbert's lyrics raise his tunes above the average, but very few people can distinguish between the two. Sullivan's music is not even original. If anything, it resembles nondescript early Verdi. The fact that Queen Victoria knighted Sullivan but not Gilbert shows her lack of taste; it is a knighthood based on politics, not art, for she found his political satire offensive (unlike his audience). I am neither English, nor an Anglophile, but I am objective enough to recognise the genius of Gilbert and the mediocrity of Sullivan. Glbert deserved much better.

Anthony Warlow's best performance...they missed the clink of empty bottles as he sang!!!

Most enjoyable! I had performed in this in high school, more than 60 years ago, and have always been fond of it!

Rules for all that are done ✔️ I

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Thanks ever so much for uploading the full performance! I’d seen clips of it, but I’m so glad to now see it in all its glory!

Why can’t people upload in a higher resolution and not this awful low quality resolution.

I am a big G&S fan. I know that The Mikado is supposed to be the most popular operetta BUT this is my favourite one. This is an excellent performance. Well Done! Lincolnshire England.

thank you so much for the upload

This has to be my favorite performance by far. I love the modern dress and how they dressed it up like a tabloid scandal, plus, I love how the performers seemed to just have fun with the material and include so many gags at every level. I was rolling in laughter during my first viewing.

Thank you again for fixed version. I noticed the gap😉