Pirates Of Penzance Act 1, minus Overture(Corrected) - D'Oyly Carte - Gilbert & Sullivan

PLEASE NOTE: This re-recording corrects a two-second gap in the first upload. Thank you!

The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty opened simultaneously in England and America. The opera premiered on December 31, 1879 at the Fifth Avenue Theater in New York with Sullivan conducting, but a single performance had been given on the previous day at the Royal Bijou Theatre, Paignton, England, to secure the British copyright. At this matinee
performance, the singers took to the stage carrying their hastily-written scripts, wearing makeshift costumes. Finally, the opera opened on April 3, 1880, at the Opéra Comique in London, where it ran for 363 performances, having already been playing successfully for over three months in New York.

Sullivan had written, in a letter to his mother while still working on 'Pirates' that "...it is exquisitely funny, and the music is strikingly tuneful and catching". So true!

Link to Act 2 http://youtu.be/5ABwl994bt0

---CAST---

Major-General Stanley--------John Reed
Pirate King-------------------------Donald Adams
Samuel, his lieutenant--------George Cook
Frederic-----------------------------Philip Potter
Sergeant of Police--------------Owen Brannigan
Mabel--------------------------------Valerie Masterson
Edith---------------------------------Jean Allister
Kate----------------------------------Pauline Wales
Isabel--------------------------------Susan Maisey
Ruth----------------------------------Christene Palmer

D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Isidore Godfrey

Information is from album notes, and boisestate dot edu.

Illustrations in this post are by Lucille Corcos, from the 1941 book 'A Treasury Of Gilbert & Sullivan'.

Straight from the 1968 vinyl.

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