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Gilbert and Sullivan ’s comic opera is packed full of sentimental pirates, blundering policeman, absurd adventures and improbable paradoxes. Frederic, a pirate’s apprentice, falls head-over-heels in love with Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley. Frederic is due to be released from his apprenticeship on his 21st birthday, but there ...
The Pirates of Penzance was an immediate hit and takes its place today as one of the most popular and enduring works of musical theatre. In The Pirates of Penzance, Frederic was as a child apprenticed to a band of tenderhearted, orphaned pirates by his nurse who, being hard of hearing, had mistaken her master's instructions to apprentice the boy to a pilot.
The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty ist eine komische Oper in zwei Akten. Die Musik stammt von Arthur Sullivan und das Libretto von W. S. Gilbert.. Die Operette wurde zur Sicherung des britischen Urheberrechts im Vereinigten Königreich am 30. Dezember 1879 im Royal Bijou Theatre in Paignton (Grafschaft Devon, England), als einmalige Vorstellung, uraufgeführt.
Gilbert and Sullivan were one of the most famous theatrical partnerships of the Victorian era. The two men worked together on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896 and are probably best known for H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado , Iolanthe and this production, The Pirates of Penzance. Read our beginner’s guide to Gilbert and Sullivan.
Misc. Notes Identified as being in the hand of George Baird and another unknown copyist, potentially one of his sons (Sullivan's diary says that Baird "and his son" — which could be George Frederick Baird (1861–1936), Charles B. Baird (1863–1932), known to be a music copyist, or Frederick Charles Harry Baird (1864–1943) — were his copyists all his life), or perhaps Frederick Solomon ...
Special Production. American Airlines Theatre. 227 West 42nd Street, New York, NY. SYNOPSIS: Young Frederic has turned 21 and thus completed his apprenticeship to a band of kindhearted pirates. He ...
As one of most popular of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas, The Pirates of Penzance is one of those most commonly referred to in popular culture. It’s difficult to say whether, however, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance or The Mikado receives the most cultural references. References to The Pirates of Penzance can be quite modern, including the following 2010 take in which President ...
