GILBERT & SULLIVAN: The pirates...

Godfrey, Isidore;
New Promenade Orchestra;
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus;
Fancourt, Darrell;
Flynn, Radley;
Gillingham, Joan;
Green, Martyn;
Halman, Ella;
Harding, Muriel;
Osborn, Leonard;
Rands, Leslie;
Watson, Richard;
Wright, Joyce;
Harris, Donald

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Subtitled The Slave of Duty, The Pirates of Penzance was the fourth in the series of Gilbert and Sullivan operas, a sequel to the phenomenally successful HMS Pinafore of 1876, which swiftly provided its creators with another transatlantic hit. Combining ideas from the pre-Sullivan Gilbert operetta Our Island Home (1870) with some of his more recent mock-melodramatic improvisations on burglars, its plot revolves around yet another case of mistaken identity. • Following their inaugural collaboration Thespis, first produced in London on 23rd December, 1871, Gilbert and Sullivan's first full-scale collaboration Trial By Jury, 'A novel and entirely original Dramatic Cantata' based on an earlier courtroom skit and initially proposed to D'Oyly Carte by Gilbert in 1874, was first given under the baton of the composer at the Royalty Theatre in London on 25th March, 1875.

CD x 2

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

04-03-2002

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