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Opens: December 2, 2024
Closing: February 21, 2025
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Batten down the hatches. Strike the colours. The pirates are back. The ENO’s smash-hit production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s swashbuckling farce returns shortly – and is set to get audiences toe-tapping along all over again.



With its splendidly silly storyline, wild wordplay and well-loved songs, this Mike Leigh-created production is irresistibly feel-good. An apprentice pirate woos the Major General’s daughter, while his bungling buccaneer-shipmates try to outwit an equally inept party of policemen. Its vibrant staging brings out the sunshine in the story.



The Pirates of Penzance is one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s most popular operas and contains some of their most memorable melodies. These include ‘I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General’, ‘A Policeman’s Lot is Not a Happy One’ and ‘With Cat-like Tread’.



This revival is directed by Sarah Tipple and conducted by Natalie Murray Beale. G&S favourites and ENO regulars Richard Suart and John Savournin are the Major General and the Pirate King respectively. Meanwhile, ENO Harewood Artist Isabelle Peters sings the role of Mabel, and former Harewood artist William Morgan is Frederic.



Co-production with Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and the Saarländische Staatstheater Saarbrücken.



__Assisted performance__


BSL signed: Saturday 8 February 2025 at 2.30pm


Relaxed performance: Thursday 30 January 2025, 1pm


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The Pirates of Penzance History

Other Productions of The Pirates of Penzance

1879   Regional (UK) World Premiere
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1879   Broadway Original Broadway Production
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1880   New York Unknown
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1880   West End London Production
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1884   West End London Revival
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1900   Broadway Unknown
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1912   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1918   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1926   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1927   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1931   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1933   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1934   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1934   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1935   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1936   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1936   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1939   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1940   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1942   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1944   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1946   Broadway Unknown
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1948   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1949   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1951   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1952   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1955   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1961   Off-Broadway Off-Broadway Revival
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1976   Broadway Broadway Revival
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1977   Off-Broadway Off-Broadway Revival
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1979   Off-Broadway LOOM Revival
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1981   Broadway Broadway Transfer
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1981   US Tour National Tour
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1982   West End London Production
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1985   Off-Off-Broadway Off-Off-Broadway Revival
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2006   Off-Broadway Off-Broadway Revival
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2006   East Haddam, CT (Regional) Goodspeed Production
East Haddam, CT (Regional)
2007   Milburn, NJ (Regional) Paper Mill Production
Milburn, NJ (Regional)
2017   West End English National Opera Revival
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2025   Broadway Roundabout Theatre Company Broadway Revival Production
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