They declare their love for each other and eventually plan to elope. She abides by her father's wishes at first, but Sir Joseph's advocacy of the equality of humankind encourages Ralph and Josephine to overturn conventional social order.
The captain's daughter, Josephine, is in love with a lower-class sailor, Ralph Rackstraw, although her father intends her to marry Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. The story takes place aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Pinafore. Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth operatic collaboration and their first international sensation.
It opened at the Opera Comique in London on, and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. 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.
