DVD
The pirates of Penzance
Performers
Keith Michell (Major-General Stanley), Alexander Oliver (Frederic), Janis Kelly (Mabel), Paul Hudson (Sergeant of Police), Peter Allen (The Pirate King), Brian Donlan (Samuel), Kate Flowers (Edith), Jenny Wren (Kate), Gillian Knight (Ruth) ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Alexander Faris, conductor ; Ambrosian Opera Chorus ; John McCarthy, chorus master.
Publication Information
Silver Spring, MD : Distributed exclusively by Acorn Media, c2002.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 libretto.
Summary
As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot. Now, having reached his 21st year, Frederic's indentures are at last over and he happily leaves the service of the pirates. When Frederic meets the beautiful Mabel, one of the many daughters (or wards in Chancery) of Major-General Stanley, they fall in love and decide to marry. However, complications arise when the pirates decide to marry the rest of the Major-General's daughters themselves - and Frederic's birthdate turns out to be not all it seems.
Notes
DVD format ; Dolby digital stereo.
Videodisc release of the 1982 production originally broadcast on television by PBS and the BBC.
Not rated.
Special features include: An introduction to the opera by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ; "making-of" featurette ; Gilbert & Sullivan profile ; song index.