HMS Pinafore premiered in 1878 at the Opera Comique in London, and became Gilbert and Sullivan’s first smash hit, enjoying a successful run of 571 performances. Satirising the snobbery and hypocrisy ...

When Cal McCrystal’s hilarious production of HMS Pinafore was first staged in 2021, English National Opera took a gamble by casting Les Dennis as the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Joseph Porter.

When I was at prep school in the 1960s, a series of old military buffers came to give a lecture to my motley group of school friends about how we were predestined to run the British Empire; this was ...

English National Opera's production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s nautical love triangle-themed opera HMS Pinafore returns to the London Coliseum for its first revival, with a major guest star headlining ...

I’ve sung Captain Corcoran a few times before, including in the 2021 premiere of this witty Cal McCrystal staging for ENO, and it’s a pleasure to be returning to this brilliant production, this time ...

On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would later come to ...

NORTHAMPTON — As I walked and whistled out of the Academy of Music on Nov. 9, Able Seaman Paul Peelle — still made up for the stage and dressed in stripes of white and Royal Navy blue — reminded me of ...

(Mass Appeal) - When you think of musicals that have stood the test of time--you may well think of Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore with all its charming music and gorgeous costumes in seafaring ...

(Mass Appeal) – When you think of musicals that have stood the test of time–you may well think of Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore with all its charming music and gorgeous costumes in seafaring ...

HADLEY — When Michael Greenebaum sat in the pit with his double bass, waiting for conductor Bill Venman to signal the opening drumroll of Arthur Sullivan’s overture on Nov. 7, 1975, he didn’t think he ...