吉爾伯特與沙利文(Gilbert and Sullivan)指維多利亞時代幽默劇作家威廉·S·吉爾伯特(William S. Gilbert)與英國作曲家阿瑟·薩利文(Arthur Sullivan)的合作。從1871年到1896年長達二十五年的合作中,共同創作了14部輕歌劇,其中最著名的為《皮納福號軍艦》(H.M.S. Pinafore)、《彭贊斯的海盜》(The Pirates of Penzance)和《日本天皇》(The Mikado)。[1]
《Arthur Sullivan 1842–1900》 (頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館),《The Musical Times》1900年12月發表,2008年6月4日查閱,文中引用Sir George Grove的評價: "Form and symmetry he seems to possess by instinct; rhythm and melody clothe everything he touches; the music shows not only sympathetic genius, but sense, judgement, proportion, and a complete absence of pedantry and pretension; while the orchestration is distinguished by a happy and original beauty hardly surpassed by the greatest masters."
Gian Andrea Mazzucato在1899年12月16日的《The Musical Standard》提到:"[Sullivan]... will... be classed among the epoch-making composers, the select few whose genius and strength of will empowered them to find and found a national school of music, that is, to endow their countrymen with the undefinable, yet positive means of evoking in a man's soul, by the magic of sound, those delicate nuances of feeling which are characteristic of the emotional power of each different race."《Sir Arthur Sullivan Society Journal》第34期,1992年春季刊第11-12頁引用該段文字。