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HMS Pinafore, Sullivan
D: Brenna Corner
C: Rosemary Thomson
H.M.S. Pinafore by Sir Arthur Sullivan, libretto W.S. Gilbert

Vancouver Opera closed the season with HMS Pinafore, or the Lass that Loved a Sailor. One of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular operas, Pinafore mocks Victorian memes - forbidden love and secret pining, class distinction and proper behaviour – and piles on Gilbertian ridicule of political incompetence and Sullivan’s musical parodies.

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www.reviewvancouver.orgElizabeth Paterson
Review: Vancouver Opera's HMS Pinafore floats a feminist update on Gilbert & Sullivan classic

A feel-good operetta has fun while trying to show the world has changed since women wore pinafores

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02 May 2022www.createastir.caJanet Smith

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