| Description |
1 online resource (115 minutes) |
| Series |
Academic Video Online |
| Summary |
An acclaimed 5-star production from renowned film maker and director Mike Leigh, featuring sentimental pirates, blundering policemen, and improbable paradoxes. Fresh from the major success of his celebrated film Mr Turner, renowned film maker, director and Gilbert & Sullivan aficionado Mike Leigh makes his opera directing debut with this eagerly anticipated new production of sparkling comic masterpiece, The Pirates of Penzance. The Pirates of Penzance tells the story of the pirate apprentice Frederic and his love for Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley |
| Notes |
Title from title screen (viewed May 26, 2022) |
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Written in 1879 |
| Credits |
Designer, Alison Chitty ; lighting designer, Paul Pyant ; choreographer, Francesca Jaynes ; film directed by Andy Morahan |
| Performer |
Andrew Shore (Major-General Stanley), Joshua Bloom (The pirate king), Alexander Robin Baker (Samuel), Robert Murray (Frederic), Jonathan Lemalu (Sergeant of police), Claudia Boyle (Mabel), Soraya Mafi (Edith), Angharad Lyddon (Kate), Lydia Marchione (Isabel), Rebecca de Pont Davies (Ruth) ; ENO Chorus, ENO Orchestra ; David Parry, conductor |
| Event |
Recorded English National Opera |
| Notes |
Sung in English |
| Subject |
Operas.
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Operas
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| Genre/Form |
Filmed performances
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Operas
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Filmed performances.
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Operas.
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Spectacles filmés.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Leigh, Mike, 1943- stage director.
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Morahan, Andy, film director
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Parry, David, 1949- conductor.
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English National Opera, performer.
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ENO Screen, presenter
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Altive Media, presenter
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Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, production company
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Saarländlische Staatstheater Saarbrücken, production company
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