Arthur Seymour Sullivan
H.M.S. Pinafore
Overture
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Arthur Seymour Sullivan
H.M.S. Pinafore
Overture
- Instrumentation Concert Band
- Composer Arthur Seymour Sullivan
- Editor Douglas McLain
- Series Baton Orchestral
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- Edition Score
- Publisher Baton Music
- Order no. BTM813SC
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Description:
'H.M.S. Pinafore' is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. 'H.M.S. Pinafore' was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth operatic collaboration and their first international sensation. The story takes place aboard the ship 'H.M.S. Pinafore'. The opera's humor focuses on love between members of different social classes and lampoons the British class system in general. Pinafore also pokes good-natured fun at patriotism, party politics, the Royal Navy, and the rise of unqualified people to positions of authority. The title of the piece comically applies the name of a garment for girls and women, a pinafore, to the fearsome symbol of a naval warship.