To-Night-"H.M.S. Pinafore."

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3290, 8 July 1879, Page 2

To-Night-"H.M.S. Pinafore."

; This.evening the opera, " H.M.S. Pinaifore," will be placed on the boards, and Iwe venture to predict that even greater success will attend its production than ithkjt^V 1 The Sorcerer At the present \ time' "JH.M.S; Pinafore ■" is being played, jail over the world, and is, perhaps^one of the great lyric successes of modern times. I The opera is essentially British, and the 'dash of salt water about it appeals at once, to English sympathies. The music is in [keeping with the words, is flowing and graceful, and has a vein of " Eule Britaniriia " running through it. The Dramatis [Persona is as follows:—Josephine (the Captain's Daughter), Miss Leaf; Little Buttercup (a Portsmouth bumboat woman), Miss Isabel Hunter; Hebe (Sir I Joseph's first cousin), Miss Teague ; Bill I Bobs tay (boatswain), Mr U. Love; Dick iDeadeye, (able seaman), Mr Henry Hodson jKalphJiackstraw, (able seaman), Mr j John Cram; Capt. Corcoran (commandjingSH.M.S Pinafore), Mr Charles Harding; the Et. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, •K.C.B. (First Lord of .the Admiralty), JMr Eiccardi; First Lord's sisters, his cousins and his aunts, sailors, marines, etc., by a full chorus. We give the op0n« ing chorus as a good specimen of th©iverMfication of the opera :_ t _

>Ye sail the ocean blue, . < ; And our saucy ship's a beauty, We're sober men and true, t , • And attentive to our duty. ,",'.,'" When the balls whistle free over the bright blue sea, : We stand to our guns all day; When at anchor we ride on the Portsmouth tide, ■ We have plenty of time for play. In conclusion we may say we hope* to see a full house at the Academy this evening. , .