Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore

Join Captain Corcoran and his daughter Josephine as she faces a battle between duty and love on the high seas. While her father makes plans for her to tie the knot with the suitably ranked First Lord of the Admiralty, Josephine has romantic ideas of her own. And, after falling for lowly deckhand Ralph, the loved-up pair make plans to elope. That is, until a surprise revelation rocks the boat.

This laugh-out-loud opera is set aboard the Royal Navy warship HMS Pinafore. If quick-fire humour floats your boat, then HMS Pinafore should be just your thing. With its fast pace, topical humour and quintessential Britishness, the score includes some of the most popular operatic music in the world. Containing some of Gilbert & Sullivan’s most memorable melodies HMS Pinafore features, ‘We Sail The Ocean Blue’, ‘For He Is An Englishman’, ‘I Am The Monarch Of The Sea’ and, of course, ‘I Am The Captain Of The Pinafore’.

Following his success in The Yeomen of the Guard and Così fan tutte, award-winning British bass baritone Neal Davis returns to ENO to play the Rt. Hon Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. Neal is joined on board by ENO-favourite and G&S expert John Savournin who reprises the role of Captain Corcoran, while his daughter Josephine is played by Harewood Artist Henna Mun. The love triangle is completed by able-seaman Ralph Rackstraw played by Thomas Atkins fresh from his successful performance as Nemorino in ENO’s 2024 production of The Elixir of Love.

Having seen Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance in December 2024 at the London Coliseum, it is a joy to be able to offer a return, this time for HMS Pinafore, their first global success, all those years ago. The cost of a trip like this was never going to come cheap but it’s one of their finest being performed in a most beautiful venue by the country’s leading operatic company. 

There is some flexibility on price at least, with you being able to choose which seats you would like. All tickets are currently in the Dress Circle. The more expensive option (£117.50) being in the centre and the lower price option (£102.50) being slightly behind these.