HMS Pinafore - 4

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HMS Pinafore - Her Majesty's Theatre Melbourne 1956

Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Season Melbourne 

 

H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. H.M.S. Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth operatic collaboration and their first international sensation.
The story takes place aboard the ship HMS Pinafore. The captain's daughter, Josephine, is in love with a lower-class sailor, Ralph Rackstraw, although her father intends her to marry Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. She abides by her father's wishes at first, but Sir Joseph's advocacy of the equality of humankind encourages Ralph and Josephine to overturn conventional social order. They declare their love for each other and eventually plan to elope. The captain discovers this plan, but, as in many of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, a surprise disclosure changes things dramatically near the end of the story.

 

This Souvenir Program is from the 1956 - Her Majesty's Theatre Melbourne


Cast: Charles Matthews, Kevin Foote, Richard Watson, Grahame Clifford, Richard Walker, Terence O'Donohue, Alban Whitehead, Pat Dorron, Helen Roberts, Jane Martin, Muriel Brunskill


Size 215 x 140 mm  Pictures and information of the cast and show.
Condition: Used Good 8/10  - small rust on center page staples original ticket stapled to 2nd page
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