Title: H.M.S. Pinafore
Description: The Kennedy Center in association with James M. Nederlander, by arrangement with The D'Oyly Carte Opera Trust Limited and Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte present D'Oyly Carte in Gilbert & Sullivan, musical director Royston Nash, production director Michael Heyland. "H.M.S. Pinafore, or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor," written by W.S. Gilbert, composed by Arthur Sullivan, back cloth designed and painted by Joseph and Phil Harker, first performance Opera Comique, May 25, 1878.