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Was H.M.S. Pinafore the first real worldwide blockbuster sort of sensation?
Consider how it was initially staged in London to modest audiences, but seemed to explode all at once in America, Australia, and London again after awhile.
I'll come out and say I'm a Pinafore-fan, but I'm really curious as to why Pinafore in particular seemed to get everybody so excited across the globe, what is it about Pinafore that made it so universal that other G&S Operas (Trial by Jury, Iolanthe, the Gondoliers) might have lacked?
Also one more question, do you think that Pinafore and light Opera in general was the unique expression of nationalism that the U.K. seemed to express, almost like its version of the unification in Germany and Italy?
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>>1333031
Yes. It's probably the closest earliest analog to it.
It's popularity was probably due to it portraying a dysfunctional state in a way that the others didn't quite do so.
>Pinafore and light Opera in general was the unique expression of nationalism that the U.K. seemed to express
I wouldn't quite go that far. It was light satire only.
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>>1333031
The Sorrows of Young Werther was the original bestseller.
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>>1334784
Water Margin actually.
First Fanboy Fiction phenomena too (started the Elaborate Tattoo Craze among East Asian Criminals)
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>>1334823
Neat.
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>>1334784
>he had to deal with fanboys and people thought it would cause a wave of suicides
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