Opera-Lytes

Opera-Lytes is the only theatre company in the Buffalo area that presents the works of Gilbert and Sullivan - the famed "Savoy Operas" - on a yearly basis. The company has staged all of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas (except Thespis) and several company veterans can boast of having performed the complete thirteen works in the canon. Thanks to our... love for and dedication to Gilbert and Sullivan's works, the company brings substantial resources to our productions. Over the years, Opera-Lytes has presented both classic and modernized adaptations of these operas. Our productions of HMS Pinafore (2005) and The Gondoliers (2010), for example, are strongly indebted to the original staging devised by Gilbert himself. On the other hand, in November 2002, our updated version of the rarely produced Utopia Limited transported the story from the original South-Sea Island to the planet Utopia; whimsical costumes alluded to Star Trek, Star Wars and Men in Black, and Princess Zara's final aria celebrated Great Britain's "inter-space battalions. In 2006, the company's production of Patience moved the opera's satire of cultural fads to the 1960's, where hippies, beatniks and squares competed for the love of adoring groupies.Read More