Gilbert and Sullivan he offered a compromise that Sullivan eventually accepted. The two would write a light opera for the Savoy, and at the same time, Sullivan a grand opera ("Ivanhoe") for a new theatre that Carte was constructing to present British grand opera. After a brief impasse over the choice of subject, Sullivan accepted an idea connected with Venice and Venetian life, as "this seemed to me to hold out great chances of bright colour and taking music." "The Gondoliers" (1889) takes place partly in Venice and partly in a kingdom ruled by a pair of gondoliers who attempt to remodel the
Someone That I Used to Love from which it was issued as an "airplay only" single and reached #25 on the Adult Contemporary chart. "Someone That I Used to Love" was released in Europe with the 1981 Barry Gibb duet "What Kind of Fool" as B-side but did not become a major hit, its only evident charting being on the Dutch Single Top 100 with a peak of #86. "Someone That I Used to Love" has also been recorded by Marco Sison (album "Memories"/ 1999) and as an instrumental by pianist Robin Spielberg (album "With a Song in My Heart"/ 2011). Someone That I Used to