Britain's oldest opera company, the distinguished Carl Rosa Opera, will be presenting "HMS Pinafore" at the Reif Center on ...

THE PLAYERS, THE PLAY, AND THE PRODUCTION: Opera-Lytes was founded in 1994 with the mission of staging the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. The company brings light opera, operetta, and classic musical ...

Not many opera companies begin in high school auditoriums. In 1975, however, a high school auditorium was exactly where Valley Light Opera got its start. This weekend, the company will celebrate their ...

(Mass Appeal) - When you think of musicals that have stood the test of time--you may well think of Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore with all its charming music and gorgeous costumes in seafaring ...

HMS Pinafore premiered in 1878 at the Opera Comique in London, and became Gilbert and Sullivan’s first smash hit, enjoying a successful run of 571 performances. Satirising the snobbery and hypocrisy ...

NORTHAMPTON — As I walked and whistled out of the Academy of Music on Nov. 9, Able Seaman Paul Peelle — still made up for the stage and dressed in stripes of white and Royal Navy blue — reminded me of ...

When I was at prep school in the 1960s, a series of old military buffers came to give a lecture to my motley group of school friends about how we were predestined to run the British Empire; this was ...

(Mass Appeal) – When you think of musicals that have stood the test of time–you may well think of Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore with all its charming music and gorgeous costumes in seafaring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NORTHAMPTON — Talk with just about any member of the Valley Light Opera, who will be celebrating their 50th anniversary with a ...

NORTHAMPTON — Talk with just about any member of the Valley Light Opera, who will be celebrating their 50th anniversary with a production of “H.M.S. Pinafore or The Lass That Loved a Sailor” at the ...