Comic Opera
HMS Pinafore
HMS Pinafore was first performed at the Opera Comique London on 25th May 1878 and ran for 571 performances.
Words by W. S. Gilbert and music by Arthur Seymour Sullivan, their fourth opera. They were destined to write 10 more up to 1896.
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
Born: London (off the Strand) 18th November 1836
Knighted: 1907
Died: 29th May 1911 on Harrow Weald
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
Born: Lambeth 13 May 1842
Knighted: 1883
Died: Victoria London 22 November 1900
Gilbert who was in a new partnership at time of Sullivan's death said“With Sullivan I never had to do that fatal thing and explain a joke.”
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