Brent Carver stars as the swashbuckling Pirate King in the famous Stratford Festival's rollicking production of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic that pits British bobbles against unlikely pirates on the Cornish coast. Sullivan regarded this operetta - a hit ever since its first production in New York in 1879 - as the best comedy he composed. He even said of his collaborator, "The libretto is ingenious, clever, wonderfully fun in parts and sometimes brilliant in dialogue - beautifully written for music, as is all Gilbert does." Indeed, audiences will find the music every bit a match for the lyrics, with the genius of the score lying in its parody of grand opera. Filmed in 1985 at the world-famous Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario.
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Writing | William S. Gilbert | Writer |
Directing | Norman Campbell | Director |
Production | Norman Campbell | Associate Producer |
Writing | Arthur Sullivan | Musical |
Costume & Make-Up | Clayton Shields | Makeup Artist |
Directing | Anne Wootten | Assistant Director |
Sound | Berthold Carriere | Music |
Directing | Brian Macdonald | Director |
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