Wikipedia:WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan/Opera categories

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Overview
This page describes the current state of how the operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan — those they wrote together, as well as those they wrote with other collaborators — are categorized. At some point, after appropriate discussion and rough consensus, this page (as revised) will become the standard for all operas in Wikipedia:WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan.


Following the guidelines at Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera#Categories, all of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas are categorized as follows:

Category:Operas by Gilbert and Sullivan
Category:English-language operas
Category:Comic operas
Category:Operas

The operas that Arthur Sullivan wrote with other librettists, except for Ivanhoe, are categorized as follows:

Category:Operas by Arthur Sullivan
Category:English-language operas
Category:Comic operas
Category:Operas

The exception is Ivanhoe, which is categorized in Category:Romantic opera, rather than in Category:Comic operas.

The operas that W. S. Gilbert wrote with other composers are categorized as follows:

Category:Works by W. S. Gilbert
Category:English-language operas
Category:Comic operas
Category:Operas

In each of the above scenarios, the minimum categories are listed. Some works also fall into additional categories. See The Pirates of Penzance and The Emerald Isle for examples.

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