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Yeomen of the guard
2026 Production of
The Yeomen of The Guard
Digital Download
Description
Digital copy of GaSLOCoLI’S 2026 production of Yeomen of The Guard.
(Recorded June 28th)
Directed by Gayden Wren with Musical Direction by Steven O’Leary and Conducted by Michael C. Haigler.
Cost: $30
(Cast & Crew: $25)
The Yeomen of the Guard; or The Merryman and His Maid, is the darkest and most emotionally engaging of the Savoy Operas.
The opera takes place in the Tower of London during the reign of King Henry VIII.In the 1510s, the noble Colonel Fairfax has been wrongly accused of sorcery by a scheming cousin who covets his estate. He has been confined to the Tower of London,
where he is scheduled to die within the hour.
Fairfax hatches a plan to foil his cousin by secretly marrying a strolling singer, named Elsie Maynard, who agrees to be his bride in exchange for 100 pounds in gold, expecting to be a widow in an hour. However, Fairfax miraculously escapes, and chaos ensues—not least for Elsie and for her partner, Jack Point, who wants her to marry him.”
Thespis
Physical CD
Description
Physical copy of GaSLOCoLI’S 2014 production of Thespis, or the Gods Grown Old.
Featuring new music by Emmy Award winning composer Thomas Zachary Shepard. Directed by David Groeger and conducted by Matthew Kasper.
Cost: $20
Currently Available: 23
The story concerns a troupe of actors who climb Mount Olympus on a picnic and discover the Roman gods, grown old and ineffectual. The actors agree to take over matters on Olympus while the gods go down to mingle with ordinary mortals to learn what they (the gods) can do to regain their old influence and prestige. Upon their return a year later the gods discover that the thespians, in their impractical way, have made a botch of things. They have, for example, given the Athenians a foggy Friday in November for six months–– and now propose to make up for it with “a blazing Tuesday in July for the next twelve.” Jupiter, in his wrath, sends the thespians back to earth and condemns them all to become “eminent tragedians, whom no one ever goes to see.”
