H.M.S. Pinafore

H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. H.M.S. Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth operatic collaboration and their first international sensation.

Musical numbers
Act 1


 * "We sail the ocean blue" - chorus
 * "Hail! men o' war's men" - Mrs. Cripps
 * "But tell me who's the youth" - Mrs. Cripps, Bill Bobstay
 * "The nightingale sighed for the moon's bright ray" - Ralph Rackstraw, Mrs. Cripps, chorus
 * "A maiden fair to see" - Ralph Rackstraw, chorus
 * "My gallant crew, good-morning" - Captain Corcoran, chorus
 * "Sir, you are sad" - Mrs.Cripps, Captain Corcoran
 * "Sorry her lot who loves too well" - Josephine
 * "Over the bright blue sea" - chorus
 * "Sir Joseph's barge is seen" - chorus
 * "Now give three cheers" - Captain Corcoran, Sir Joseph Porter, Cousin Hebe, chorus
 * "When I was a lad" - Sir Joseph Porter, chorus
 * "For I hold that on the seas" - Sir Joseph Porter, chorus
 * "A British tar is a soaring soul" - Ralph Rackstraw, Bill Bobstay, Bob Becket, chorus
 * "Refrain, aduacious tar" - Josephine, Ralph Rackstraw
 * "Can I survive the overbearing" - Ralph Rackstraw, Dick Deadeye, Cousin Hebe, Bill Bobstay, Josephine, Mrs. Cripps, Bob Becket, chorus

Act 2


 * "Fair moon, to thee I sing" - Captain Corcoran
 * "Things are seldom what they seem" - Mrs. Cripps, Captain Corcoran
 * "The hours creep on apace" - Josephine
 * "Never mind the why and wherefore" - Josephine, Captain Corcoran, Sir Joseph Porter
 * "Kind Captain, I've important information" - Captain Corcoran, Dick Deadeye
 * "Carefully on tip-toe stealing" - Dick Deadeye, Captain Corcoran, Josephine, Ralph Rackstraw, Bill Bobstay, Cousin Hebe, Sir Joseph Porter, chorus
 * "Farewell, my own" - Ralph Rackstraw, Josephine, Sir Joseph Porter, Cousin Hebe, Mrs. Cripps, Dick Deadeye, Bill Bobstay, Bob Becket, chorus
 * "A many years ago" - Mrs. Cripps, chorus
 * "Oh joy! Oh rapture unforeseen" - Josephine, Cousin Hebe, Ralph Rackstraw, Dick Deadeye, Captain Corcoran, Mrs. Cripps, Sir Joseph Porter, chorus