Opera Anywhere

A young man bound by an overactive sense of duty, a soft-hearted pirate
king with a hopeless band of rogues at his side, a beautiful young girl, a
very modern major-general and an ineffectual bevy of policemen…add a
plot hinging on the technicalities of having a birthday on the 29th of
February and we’re just about there. What could possibly go wrong?

Mercilessly parodying Victorian society and its very particular moral
values, The Pirates of Penzance is exquisitely observed and wonderfully
funny. Gilbert’s high-speed patter is razor sharp and Sullivan’s score sees
him at the top of his game, mixing an operatic style to rival the great
Italians of his day with the catchy, witty melodies for which he is so well
known.