The Pirates of Penzance

Written by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert

The Pirates of Penzance

by William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan

A comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Its official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where it was well received by both audiences and critics.Its London debut was on 3 April 1880, at the Opera Comique, where it ran for 363 performances.

Cast

Narrator: Julie VW

Frederic: Karen Savage

Pirate King: StephenC

Samuel: Phil Chenevert

Ruth: Liberty Stump

Major-General Stanley: Kevin S. Mellis

Mabel: Catharine Eastman

Edith: BookAngel7

Kate: Ezwa

Isabel: JemmaBlythe

Sergeant of Police: John Fricker

Chorus:

Alex Foster

BookAngel7

Catharine Eastman

Ezwa

Fred DeBerardinis

Helen Song

Henry Frigon

Jane Smith

JemmaBlythe

John Fricker

Karen Savage

Liberty Stump

Miriam Esther Goldman

StephenC

ToddHW

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ashby Navis & Tennyson Media Publisher
• Release date: Jan 13, 2023
• ISBN: 9781669664758

Arthur Sullivan

Sydney Grundy (1848–1914) and Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) were successful collaborators during the late nineteenth century. Grundy attended Owens College where he studied law before he embarked on his theatrical career. Elsewhere, Sullivan was raised in a musical family where he learned to play multiple instruments at an early age. He would go on to produce H.M.S. Pinafore (1878) and The Pirates of Penzance (1879). Meanwhile, Grundy worked on A Little Change (1872), A Pair of Spectacles (1889) and A Village Priest (1890).