Filmmaker to direct English National Opera production of Gilbert and Sullivan classic at Coliseum next yearMike Leigh once berated directors for failing to understand Gilbert and Sullivan, resulting in "boring, bland, sentimental, self-conscious, often gratuitously camp productions, which entirely miss their point".But now the film director will get his chance to show them how it is done, with the English N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:59AM on April 29, 2014