Gilbert and Sullivan of these recordings have been reissued on CD. After the company was revived in 1988, it recorded seven of the operas. After the copyrights on the operas expired, numerous companies around the world released popular audio and video recordings of the operas. In 1966 and again in the 1980s, BBC Radio presented complete cycles of the thirteen extant Gilbert and Sullivan operas, with dialogue. Ad hoc casts of operatic singers conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent in the 1950s and 60s and Sir Charles Mackerras in the 1990s have made audio sets of several Savoy operas, and in the 1980s Alexander
W. S. Gilbert bibliography full-length two-act works, except for "Trial by Jury", which is in one act, and "Princess Ida", which is three acts. All except for "Trial by Jury" contain spoken dialogue; the dialogue in "Princess Ida" is written in blank verse. Though not as popular as the works with Arthur Sullivan, a few of Gilbert's later comic operas arguably have stronger plots than the last two Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Gilbert is known to have written lyrics for twelve parlour ballads. These are: W. S. Gilbert bibliography This is a selected list of W. S. Gilbert's works, including all that have their