Name: The Pirates of Penzance
Start: 2025-04-12T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Victoria Hall

Opera Anywhere and the students of LAR performing company presents the Gilbert & Sullivan classic 'The Pirates of Penzance'
The opera premiered in December 1879 in New York with Sullivan conducting, but there had been a single performance prior to this in Paignton, UK to secure the British copyright. After a successful three-month run in New York, it subsequently ran for 363 performances at the Opera Comique in London. In a letter from Sullivan to his mother, he wrote, “I think it will be a great success, for it is exquisitely funny, and the music is strikingly tuneful and catching.” And indeed it is!