Utopia, Limited, is a
Savoy Opera, with music by
Arthur Sullivan and
libretto by
W. S. Gilbert. It was the second-to-last of
Gilbert and Sullivan's fourteen collaborations, premiering on 7 October 1893 for a run of 245 performances. Although it did not achieve the success of most of their earlier productions, it was the longest-running production to premiere at the
Savoy Theatre in the 1890s. The opera satirises
incorporation laws, by imagining the absurd convergence of natural persons with legal commercial entities, the perceived unfairness of
bankruptcy laws, and other conceits and institutions of the late 19th-century
British Empire.Image: Strobridge Lithographing Co.; Restoration:
Adam Cuerden
Utopia, Limited, is a
Savoy Opera, with music by
Arthur Sullivan and
libretto by
W. S. Gilbert. It was the second-to-last of
Gilbert and Sullivan's fourteen collaborations, premiering on 7 October 1893 for a run of 245 performances. Although it did not achieve the success of most of their earlier productions, it was the longest-running production to premiere at the
Savoy Theatre in the 1890s. The opera satirises
incorporation laws, by imagining the absurd convergence of natural persons with legal commercial entities, the perceived unfairness of
bankruptcy laws, and other conceits and institutions of the late 19th-century
British Empire.Image: Strobridge Lithographing Co.; Restoration:
Adam Cuerden