HMS Pinafore
A large tot of happiness from ENO’s Pinafore
HMS Pinafore at English National Opera is a joyous entertainment that revels in the humour while ensuring the highest standards of musicianship. It is, shock horror, enjoyable. Yet it is a mark of our strange times when performing Gilbert and Sullivan seems quite brave and some companies would fret themselves onto a woke apoplexy performing…
ENO’s 2021-22 plans including Les Dennis in Pinafore
English National Opera’s 2021/22 season will include four new productions, including comedian Les Dennis performing in HMS Pinafore. Director Cal McCrystal returns to direct the first production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore in the company’s history; Richard Jones directs Wagner’s The Valkyrie, the first production in a new Ring Cycle to be staged at…