Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance (D'Oyly Carte Opera Company / Isidore Godfrey / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
1968
Standard Broadway
Pirates! The Penzance Musical
MusicArthur SullivanLyricsW.S. Gilbert
Book by W.S. Gilbert (original 1879 libretto); Rupert Holmes (new book for 2025 Broadway adaptation)
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Start ratingA reworking of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance, adapted by Rupert Holmes, that relocates the story to New Orleans with jazz and blues orchestrations. Young Frederic, bound by a sense of duty to a band of soft-hearted pirates, tries to leave them behind and marry Mabel.
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