This line sounds like something out of last week's Washington Post, but no, it's front and center in a satirical patter song from the Gilbert & Sullivan classic H.M.S. Pinafore - proving once ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The best thing about Opera Australia's new productions of Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore and the one-act Trial by Jury is Anthony ...

HMS Pinafore, or The Lass that Loved a Sailor (1878), is a satire with strange origins: it was directed against W.H. Smith. William Henry Smith, the newsagent, magnate and politician, was ...

Gilbert and Sullivan purists might wonder if the songwriters are rolling in their graves with the addition of a ridiculous encounter that spoofs the duo’s beloved Queen Victoria in the Guthrie ...