Oct 26, 2024
Purchase before June 1 and receive 10% off!
Opera at the Opera House at last! And whether you're seated at a table or in the poop deck, you're invited to a Halloween Pirate Costume Ball to top it off! Put a bird on your shoulder, roll up your pants (me hearties), and sail to City Opera House for Traverse City's Halloween event of the season!
This New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players production is your chance to get carried away by Pirates. Join the band of swashbuckling buccaneers, bumbling British bobbies, frolicsome Victorian maidens, and the delightfully dotty “model of a modern Major-General” for a rollicking romp over the rocky coast of Cornwall. This exuberant musical theater masterpiece, directed and conducted by Albert Bergeret with choreography by Bill Fabris, is performed in its original format. The rich sounds of full orchestra, chorus, and legitimate vocal soloists resonate with classic elegance and power while the company’s vibrancy, energy and contemporary sense of humor keep the show alive and exciting to a modern audience. The Pirates of Penzance - they’ll steal your heart away!
The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty was first performed at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on December 31, 1879. It was the only Gilbert & Sullivan operetta to have its world premiere in the United States and it has remained popular both here and throughout the English speaking world ever since. Gilbert’s wit (always incisive but never vicious or dated) and Sullivan’s memorable score (including the original tune from which “Hail, hail the gang’s all here” is drawn) are among the most valuable treasures of musical theater history.
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There are three seating options for this event:
Admission
Tickets are available to our eClub members May 1 at 10am and to the public May 7 at 10am. Purchase before June 1 and receive 10% off!