2025 Show - The Sorcerer
Step into a whimsical world where love knows no bounds in "The Sorcerer"! This charming opera takes you to a quaint, rural village where young Alexis's grand experiment with a love potion turns the community upside down.
Witness comically mismatched couples, satirical jabs at aristocratic norms, and the power of love to overcome social distinctions. With its enchanting music and topsy-turvy humor, "The Sorcerer" is a delightful prelude to the golden age of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Don't miss this bewitching tale of magic, music, and mirth!
Witness comically mismatched couples, satirical jabs at aristocratic norms, and the power of love to overcome social distinctions. With its enchanting music and topsy-turvy humor, "The Sorcerer" is a delightful prelude to the golden age of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Don't miss this bewitching tale of magic, music, and mirth!
The GSOS Production Team
Elizabeth Lowrencev, Stage Director & Choreographer
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Elizabeth began her association with Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas with a school production of HMS Pinafore. Elizabeth began directing and choreographing in 1994, with The Sorcerer for Loyola Musical Society, and continued with Patience, My Fair Lady, and Oklahoma! She directed and choreographed The Gondoliers for Savoy Opera Company (Victoria) in 1998 at The National Theatre. With Inter’acte Theatre Co Elizabeth directed The Importance of Being Earnest, as with Leo9 Theatre Co. Elizabeth directed and choreographed Strathfield Musical Society’s 2012 production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. With GSOS Elizabeth has directed The Gondoliers, The Mikado, Princess Ida and HMS Pinafore. Elizabeth has been writing, devising and directing plays since 1993 with ‘Drama with a Difference’ and ‘Kids up Front Drama Academy’. In 2003 she choreographed for the Schools Spectacular, performed at Sydney Opera House.
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Rod Mounjed, Musical Director
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Rod has been Musical Directing since 1985, when he first designed the music for the play Cloud Nine at the Seymour Centre. Recent Musical Design in 2002-4 has included The Importance of Being Earnest, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeare by the Sea). Since 2000 Rod has worked as a conductor with Symphony Australia’s conducting program and has worked interstate with different ensembles and orchestras from each of the major symphony orchestras around Australia, specializing in the works of Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, Grieg and Beethoven.
Rod has worked with GSOS since 1991 (Iolanthe, Princess Ida (twice) Pirates of Penzance, Yeomen of the Guard and HMS Pinafore). With Regals Musical Society has conducted Broadway Pirates of Penzance, Pippin, Oklahoma, Chess, Annie, Me & My Girl. His two shows with the Rockdale Musical Society have been Anything Goes and Mame. He has conducted Ruddigore for Rockdale Opera in 2011. For the past three decades he has been the resident Musical Director at Lugar Brae Players and has participated in HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance, South Pacific, Oklahoma, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, Me & My Girl, The Pajama Game, Guys and Dolls, Oliver, Annie Get Your Gun, Sound of Music. He volunteered to help conduct Yeomen of the Guard and Iolanthe for the G & S Singfest (Glen Street Theatre and Zenith Theatre). As a pianist he has recorded for SMP classics, works by Mendelssohn (Songs without Words), Beethoven (Late Piano Sonatas Op.109, 110 & 111), and “An Evening with G & S” for violin and piano. |
Sandi Tutt, Costumier
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Sandi grew up sewing with her sister, mother and grandmother (who was a milliner). She has been making costumes since 1996 and has worked with several societies in Sydney. She first worked with Savoy Arts Company (G&S Opera Sydney’s original name) doing the Gondoliers in 2007 and has done most of the shows for GSOS since then.
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