Act I The sailors of Her Majesty’s Ship Pinafore are merrily preparing for Sir Joseph’s inspection. Little Buttercup hints of a dark secret she is hiding, Dick Deadeye, a member of the crew is ...

THE PLAYERS, THE PLAY, AND THE PRODUCTION: Opera-Lytes was founded in 1994 with the mission of staging the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. The company brings light opera, operetta, and classic musical ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. An operetta for the whole family, H.M.S. Pinafore is one of Gilbert and ...

And as cymbals clash melodramatically and David Steadman, conducting, underlines the ominous chromatic rise and fall of the bass line in Little Buttercup’s fateful duet with the Captain, the target of ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — "HMS Pinafore," a classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, will be performed on the Purdue campus this month. Staged by the Carl Rosa Opera Company, an internationally ...

Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operettas have been tiptoeing back into fashion — despite sneers from certain Arts Council types, who disdain popular taste. You wonder what such snoots make of the fiery ...