Not many opera companies begin in high school auditoriums. In 1975, however, a high school auditorium was exactly where Valley Light Opera got its start. This weekend, the company will celebrate their ...

All aboard the H.M.S. PINAFORE—setting sail on August 2nd! Premiering in 1878, HMS PINAFORE was Gilbert & Sullivan’s first smash hit and became the gold standard for light opera for generations to ...

Since hearing a trio of emerging artists from the Green Mountain Opera Festival sing Mozart’s “Soave sia il vento” (from Così fan tutte) last month at Burlington’s Cathedral of St. Paul, I’ve had a ...

H.M.S. Pinafore, the classic comic opera that made Gilbert & Sullivan world famous almost 150 years ago, returns to Long Island in the Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island’s all-new ...

NORTHAMPTON — Talk with just about any member of the Valley Light Opera, who will be celebrating their 50th anniversary with a production of “H.M.S. Pinafore or The Lass That Loved a Sailor” at the ...

The Baylor Opera Theatre stages Gilbert and Sullivan’s popular 1878 operetta “H.M.S. Pinafore” Friday and Saturday at the Waco Hippodrome, but just because it’s in English doesn’t mean it’s a piece of ...

KEENE, N.H. It was a boiling hot summer in London in the year 1878, and a new musical with a nautical theme was struggling to stay alive in the face of small audiences. The composer, Arthur Sullivan, ...