At the beginning of this opera, a woman boards a ship anchored at Portsmouth and offers "snuff and tobacc-y" to its sailors. Later, the captain avers that he "hardly ever" swears, and that character, Corcoran, is revealed to have been switched with another character at birth. He intends to marry his daughter Josephine to the First Lord of the Admiralty, although she is in love with Ralph Rackstraw
At the beginning of this opera, a woman boards a ship anchored at Portsmouth and offers "snuff and tobacc-y" to its sailors. Later, the captain avers that he "hardly ever" swears, and that character, Corcoran, is revealed to have been switched with another character at birth. He intends to marry his daughter Josephine to the First Lord of the Admiralty, although she is in love with Ralph Rackstraw, while Little Buttercup ends up marrying the captain. For 10 points, name this Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera set aboard the title ship.
At the beginning of this opera, a woman boards a ship anchored at Portsmouth and offers "snuff and tobacc-y" to its sailors.