Film
English National Opera: The Pirates of Penzance
- Director
- Mike Leigh
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 149 mins
Topsy-Turvy director and all-round Gilbert and Sullivan enthusiast Mike Leigh directs his first opera for the stage.
Leigh’s production of the popular G&S comic opera stars Andrew Shore as the very model of a modern Major-General, Jonathan Lemalu as the affectionate parody of the British bobby, Robert Murray as the innocent pirate-apprentice Frederic, and Rebecca de Pont Davies as the older woman who has designs on him. Songs include such favourites as A Policeman’s Lot is Not a Happy One and I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General. The opera was recorded at the London Coliseum back in 2015.
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