Gillbert & Sullivan: Pirates Of Penzance
) | Label: EMI Catalog: 5099909509221 Format: CD Sargent, MalcolmIn a high-spirited romp that irresistibly parodies the dramatic and musical gestures of Italian grand opera, The Pirates of Penzance tells the story of Frederic, apprenticed in error to a shipload of good-natured buccaneers. Famously featuring a loquacious major general and an ineffectual police squad, the operetta received its premiere in New York in 1879, thus pre-empting any ‘pirate’ American productions of the kind that followed the London success of its maritime predecessor, HMS Pinafore.  Price: $21.98 |