Show iolanthe lanthe lo on the evenings of joly july soth and a local operatic event will occur at the union opera house which it ie in expected will eclipse all other efforts of home talent in the line of opera the beat local talent will on these thees evenings render tender the beautiful and amusing opera colanthe lo To lanthe or the peer and the peri perl one of gilbert 4 sullivans greatest operatic successes the piece piece opens with a grand choros chorus co of fairies oleris the he burden of their BOOK song Is in joy at their free and ba happy y ii lit fo bat but at the end of the chorus agthe all the fairies sigh wearily and in the dialogue watch follows the cause of their sigh I 1 ie a explained their moat most favorite f fairy airy sister iolanthe waa was banished bunis bod b by y their queen twenty five years before I 1 ore the scene at the dpn opening ing of the piece the for f or which h ach io riece thedas banished consisted coneie ted in her marrying a mortal the punishment for according acco idina iding to fairy law laws was death but being a general favorite among the fairsee and with the queen her majesty banished her from the fairy realm forever the fairies implore their queen to forgive their erring eister sister and allow her bar to return to their midst and the queen being moved by their supplication end and her bar own great love tor for Icila uthe grants their wish the queen calls Iu lanthe authell forth from her exile in a song in which the chorus of fairies joins and lo lanthe olanthe rises from a pool of water clad in tattered abd arid so foments garments ments with her head bowed and arms 9 cropped in humble attitude before her tier majesty the queen commands iolanthe to look up and tells her bar ehe she ia Is pardoned whereupon the tattered garments gar menta fall from her nod and she stands forth in all her fairy glory during her married life Ilola lo lantho uthell had a eon son strephon who appears later on and ie Is in love with a mortal named phyllis Phyll ig who ia Is a ward of chancery with whom all the lords and even the lord chancellor himself are deeply in love Strep bon ie Is dying to marry phyllis and so is I 1 I 1 everybody everybody else also end and after much k brou trou trouble Is and tonj many ludicrous scenes strephon and phyllis are married and I 1 they discover that the lord chancel lor lot is is the father of strephon and the lo lanthe atie outcome is that all sit iho the fairies fall in love with wit mortals mor tala and ov even en the tle queen herself espre expresses gas feel ii ings ti 0 decided r regard e gard for a willi willis acm company 0 p y first battalion battali 0 grenadier a dir G guarde uddo me the fairies au 1 1 marry at r y and d beco become me liable lo 10 the penalty of of death but the queen does not wish to kill the whole company so she finds herel herself in a quandary a y though the law ie is plainly written a that every fairy shall bb ai I 1 die who ho marries a mortal but the lord chancellor comes to her relief lief by suggesting a change in the law so as to make it a punishment of 0 death for a failure on the part of a fairy ti marry a mortal whereupon the queen proceeds proc eoda to help herself to private willia willis while lo lanthe and the lord chancellor are reunited and all sit ends happily and satisfactorily some very beautiful costumes will be worn and during the course of the opera some very grand mechanical scenic and costume effects will be produced |