Slide

H.M.S. Pinafore

January 24, 2025 - 7:30 PM
January 25, 2025 - 7:30 PM
January 26, 2025 - 3:00 PM
Tennessee Performing Arts Center - Polk Theater

Directed by Emily Pulley
Conducted by Dean Williamson
Featuring the Nashville Opera Orchestra
Sung in English with projected English lyrics

Score by Sir Arthur Sullivan
Libretto by Sir William S. Gilbert
Premiered in London, Opera Comique, May 25, 1878

H.M.S. Pinafore was the show that began it all for G&S. Sullivan’s beautiful music paired with the clever wordplay of Gilbert produced many classics of the music theatre stage, but none more audience pleasing than this early collaboration.  Nowadays, the very mention of the names Gilbert and Sullivan evoke the memory of such shows as The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, and Iolanthe.  But it all started here!

With all the topsy-turvy storytelling and wordplay you can handle, this high-seas operetta is all high-jinks and good times for the whole family!

Artists

Artist

Eric McKeever
SIR JOSEPH PORTER, KCB

Artist

Andrew Payne
CAPTAIN CORCORAN

Artist

Zachary Taylor *
RALPH RACKSTRAW

Artist

Luke Harnish
DICK DEADEYE

Artist

Keaton Brown *
BOATSWAIN

Artist

Yeonjae Cho *
JOSEPHINE CORCORAN

Artist

Katherine Kincaid *
COUSIN HEBE

Artist

Emily Pulley
LITTLE BUTTERCUP (MRS. CRIPPS)

Artist

Emily Pulley
Director

Artist

Dean Williamson
Conductor

* 2025 Mary Ragland Emerging Artist

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Nashville Opera is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Nashville Opera is supported, in part, by federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.