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HMS Pinafore: Or the Lass That Loved a Sailor Vocal Score by: W.S. Gilbert
bookshelves: published-1878, music, amusing, love, winter-20142015, victorian
Read from December 03 to 04, 2014
HMS Pinafore - Wichita Grand OperaWiki description: The story takes place aboard the British 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.
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Punch cartoon, 1877, portraying First Lord of the Admiralty W. H. Smith as a land-lubber, saying: "I think I'll now go below." In Pinafore, Sir Joseph similarly sings: "When the breezes blow / I generally go below".
3* The Sorceror
4* Princess Ida
4* Iolanthe
5* HMS Pinafore
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