Portsmouth Rolling Stones, and Fleetingwood Mac. Numerous musical works are set in the city. "Portsmouth Point" is an overture for orchestra by the English composer William Walton in 1925. The work was inspired by Thomas Rowlandson's etching depicting Portsmouth Point, otherwise known as "Spice Island" in Old Portsmouth. The overture was used for the BBC Proms Concert in 2007. "H.M.S. Pinafore" is a comic opera in two acts set in Portsmouth Harbour, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W.S. Gilbert. John Cranko's 1951 ballet "Pineapple Poll", which features the operetta music of "The Bumboat Woman's Story" by Gilbert and
La Perle (ballet) La Perle (ballet) La Perle (en. "The Pearl") (ru. «Жемчужина» or «Прелестная жемчужина»; "Zhemchuzhina" or "Prelestnaya Zhemchuzhina") (en. "Pearl" or "Pretty Pearl") is a "ballet-divertissement" in one act, with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Riccardo Drigo. "La Perle" was created by Marius Petipa—the renowned "Premier maître de ballet" of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres—and the composer Riccardo Drigo—principal conductor of ballet and Italian opera performances for the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres and director of music to the Imperial Ballet—as a lavish piece d'occasion for the gala given at the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow in celebration