What is The Sorcerer?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox play | name = The Sorcerer | image = The Sorcerer poster with J. W. Wells (1884 revival).jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = Poster for the 1884 revival | writer = [[W. S. Gilbert]] (words)<br />[[Arthur Sullivan]] (music) | chorus = | characters = John Wellington Wells | mute = | setting = England | premiere = 17 November 1877 | place = [[Opera Comique]]<br />[[London, England]] | orig_lang = English | series = | subject = | genre = [[Operetta]] | web = | playbill = | ibdb_id = | iobdb_id = | theatricalia_id = }} '''''The Sorcerer''''' is an [[operetta]] by [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]. It is the third of their fourteen operettas. It opened in [[London]] at the [[Opera Comique]] on 17 November 1877. It ran for 178 performances. The play is about the effects of a love potion on the residents of an English [[village]]. ==References== * Bradley, Ian. 2001. ''The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan''. Oxford University Press. pp. 43-45. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sorcerer}} [[Category:Operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan]] [[Category:1870s operas]] [[Category:1877 works]] {{performing-arts-stub}}