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Revision as of 06:41, 21 September 2019
H.M.S. Pinafore is a comic opera in two acts by W.S. Gilbert (1836–1911)[1] and Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)[2]
Originally performed with its full title, as H.M.S. Pinafore, or The Lass That Loved a Sailor, but generally referred to simply as H.M.S. Pinafore.
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The original text
The play opened at the Opera Comique, London, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, became an international success and had a great impact on the evolution of the musical as an art form.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1903: Performed in South Africa by the visiting D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as part of their repertoire of Gilbert and Sullivan works, presented over the course of two seasons.
Staged by the Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society in 1935, 1951 and 1979.
Staged by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society in 1953, 1956, 1966, 1973, 1978, 1984, 1992 and 2009.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore
D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 389-390, 410-411,
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