DESCRIPTION:
This Savoy opera is the eleventh of the fourteen Gilbert and Sullivan collaborations. It opened on October 3rd, 1888, and ran for 423 performances.

Overture 00:01-04:41

Link To Act 2 http://youtu.be/S5YI-h873Vs

---CAST---

Sir Richard Cholmondeley-------------Gareth Rhys-Davies
(Lieutenant of the Tower)

Colonel Fairfax-----------------------------Neill Archer
(Under sentence of death)

Sergeant Meryll----------------------------Donald Adams
(of the Yeomen of the Guard)

Leonard Meryll------------------------------Peter Hoare
(his son)

Jack Point------------------------------------Richard Suart
(a Strolling Jester)

Wilfred Shadbolt----------------------------Donald Maxwell
(Head Jailer)

Elsie Maynard-------------------------------Alwyn Mellor
(a Strolling Singer)

Phoebe Meryll-------------------------------Pamela Helen Stephen

Dame Carruthers---------------------------Felicity Palmer
(Housekeeper to the Tower)

Kate---------------------------------------------Clare O'Neill
(her niece)

Solo Yeoman---------------------------------Philip Lloyd-Evans

Solo Yeoman---------------------------------John King

Solo Yeoman---------------------------------Peter Massocchi

Solo Yeoman---------------------------------Ralph Mason


Orchestra and Chorus of the Welsh National Opera
Sir Charles Mackerras, Conductor

Information from album notes, and Wikipedia.

Illustrations in this post are by Lucille Corcos, from the 1941 book 'A Treasury Of Gilbert & Sullivan'.

From the 1995 album. I own nothing here.