Welcome to the Coventry Savoy Opera Society web site. The Society promotes the works of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan but has and continues to perform other works as well. We have an established repertoire of songs from a variety of shows which we perform in concerts whilst not undertaking one of our major shows. This year "2009" Coventry Savoy present "HMS Pinafore" by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Synopsis
The opera's gentle satire reprises and builds upon one of The Sorcerer's themes: Love between members of different social classes. The gentlemanly Captain of the Pinafore, who claims that he would never swear at his crew (What, Never?), does not know that his daughter has fallen in love with a common sailor serving on her father's ship. Meanwhile, the Captain has arranged for her to marry the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Joseph Porter. Sir Joseph himself has risen from humble beginnings to gain his office by political acumen, despite having never gone to sea! And the Captain himself fancies a poor bumboat woman. Fear not: it all works out in the end. Hip, hip, hoorah!
The opera's gentle satire reprises and builds upon one of The Sorcerer's themes: Love between members of different social classes. The gentlemanly Captain of the Pinafore, who claims that he would never swear at his crew (What, Never?), does not know that his daughter has fallen in love with a common sailor serving on her father's ship. Meanwhile, the Captain has arranged for her to marry the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Joseph Porter. Sir Joseph himself has risen from humble beginnings to gain his office by political acumen, despite having never gone to sea! And the Captain himself fancies a poor bumboat woman. Fear not: it all works out in the end. Hip, hip, hoorah!
HMS Pinafore
or The Lass that loved a Sailor
by Gilbert and Sullivan
or The Lass that loved a Sailor
by Gilbert and Sullivan
2009 Performances are at:
June 12th & 13th 2009
Grange Hall, Southam
June 27th June 2009
Warwick Road United Reformed Church, Coventry
Grange Hall, Southam
June 27th June 2009
Warwick Road United Reformed Church, Coventry
For further information about this and other productions or concerts using the following email addresses:
info@coventrysavoy.org.uk
or
bookings@coventrysavoy.org.uk
info@coventrysavoy.org.uk
or
bookings@coventrysavoy.org.uk
