Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NORTHAMPTON — Talk with just about any member of the Valley Light Opera, who will be celebrating their 50th anniversary with a ...

Sullivan’s rollicking music will remain in your head for days, and Gilbert’s sharp wit and clever rhymes remain undimmed by time. Together these masters spoof the English class system, the Royal Navy, ...

When Gilbert and Sullivan wanted to lampoon the different social classes of British society in the 19th century, they created “HMS Pinafore — The Lass That Loved A Sailor.” The comic opera will be ...

The comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan H.M.S. Pinafore was performed on January 21st at the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall by the Southeast Opera. Part of Southeast Missouri State University, the ...

Who is the fairest: Bruce Graham as Dick Deadeye and Richard Gauntlett as Sir Joseph Porter The other character roles were just as fully inhabited – and more than adequately sung. Bruce Graham wasn’t ...

THE PLAYERS, THE PLAY, AND THE PRODUCTION: Opera-Lytes was founded in 1994 with the mission of staging the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. The company brings light opera, operetta, and classic musical ...

NORTHAMPTON — As I walked and whistled out of the Academy of Music on Nov. 9, Able Seaman Paul Peelle — still made up for the stage and dressed in stripes of white and Royal Navy blue — reminded me of ...

Showstopping routines from John Savournin's Captain Corcoran, 'Midshipmite' Rufus (whose surname we may not reproduce in picture captions for some bizarre reason) and sailors Proper operatic casting ...

Gilbert and Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore” dropped anchor Friday evening at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts, where the Virginia Opera gave a clever and reverently detailed production of ...

NORTHAMPTON — Talk with just about any member of the Valley Light Opera, who will be celebrating their 50th anniversary with a production of “H.M.S. Pinafore or The Lass That Loved a Sailor” at the ...