As the Gilbert and Sullivan operas thrived in London and throughout the British Isles, they inevitably made their way to America.\u00a0 H.M.S. Pinafore<\/i> arrived in Boston as a pirated production in November 1878 and soon took the nation by storm.\u00a0 The absence of copyright protection gave American companies free-rein to do with the work as they would.\u00a0 The \u201cPinafore<\/i> craze\u201d ran throughout 1879, and it wasn\u2019t until December of that year that Gilbert, Sullivan, and Carte brought their own Pinafore<\/i> to America, and with it their next opera\u2014The Pirates of Penzance<\/i>, the only opera to premiere in New York, rather than London.<\/p>\n
Featured here are programs, photographs, prints, posters, and souvenirs from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas in North America.<\/p>","credits":"","featured":0,"public":1,"theme":"","theme_options":null,"slug":"gsamerica","added":"2017-03-29 13:45:29","modified":"2017-08-10 13:38:15","owner_id":6,"use_summary_page":1,"cover_image_file_id":148,"id":7},"item":{"item_type_id":6,"collection_id":1,"featured":1,"public":1,"added":"2017-03-13 09:39:26","modified":"2017-06-07 13:59:09","owner_id":3,"id":808}}