吉爾伯特與沙利文（Gilbert and Sullivan）指维多利亚时代幽默劇作家威廉·S·吉尔伯特（William S. Gilbert）與英國作曲家阿瑟·萨利文（Arthur Sullivan）的合作。从1871年到1896年長達二十五年的合作中，共同创作了14部輕歌剧，其中最著名的为《皮纳福号军舰》（H.M.S. Pinafore）、《彭赞斯的海盗》（The Pirates of Penzance）和《日本天皇》（The Mikado）。[1]
^《Arthur Sullivan 1842–1900》 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆），《The Musical Times》1900年12月发表，2008年6月4日查阅，文中引用Sir George Grove的评价: "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页引用该段文字。
