"H.M.S. Pinafore or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor" probably needs no introduction. The saga of a Royal Navy captain's daughter who falls in love with a humble sailor aboard his ship--and, in the process, throws a monkey wrench into her father's plans to marry her off to Sir Joseph Porter, the dithering First Lord of the Admiralty--was the opera that made Gilbert & Sullivan legends, and has been popular in America since it opened in 1878. At that time it played at eight different Broadway theaters simultaneously, and it remains a favorite of American audiences who cherish its charming blend of clever lyrics, beautiful music, operatic spoof and deft political satire.
"H.M.S. Pinafore, " the classic comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan, is presented in an all-new production by the Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island. May 3 at 2 p.m. East Hampton Library,
159 Main Street, (631) 324-0222
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FREE EVENT
Captain Corcoran (Chris Jurak, left) tries to convince his daughter, Josephine
(Anne Elise Teeling), that the man for her is the vain, supercilious Sir Joseph
Porter (Gayden Wren) in a scene from the Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera
Company of Long Island’s 2025 production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s H.M.S.
Pinafore. (Photo by Delaney R. Page. Copyright 2025 The Gilbert & Sullivan
Light Opera Company of Long Island.)
