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The Pirates of Penzance discography

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This is a partial discography of Gilbert and Sullivan's opera The Pirates of Penzance, which premiered on 31 December 1879, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City.[1]

Year Cast:
The Pirate King,
Mabel,
Ruth,
Frederic,
Major-General Stanley,
Samuel,
Sergeant of Police,
Edith
Conductor,
Theater and orchestra
Label
1961 James Milligan,
Elsie Morison,
Monica Sinclair,
Richard Lewis,
George Baker,
John Cameron,
Owen Brannigan,
Heather Harper
Malcolm Sargent,
Pro Arte Orchestra,
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
EMI[2]
1968 Donald Adams,
Valerie Masterson,
Christene Palmer,
Philip Potter,
John Reed,
George Cook,
Owen Brannigan,
Carol Malone
Isidore Godfrey,
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Decca Studios[3]
1979 Darrell Fancourt,
Muriel Harding,
Ella Halman,
Leonard Osborn,
Martyn Green, Donald Harris,

Joan Gillingham
Isidore Godfrey,
Chorus and Orchestra of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
LP:Decca
Cat: DPA 3051/2 mono[4]
1981 Kevin Kline,
Linda Ronstadt,
Estelle Parsons,
Rex Smith,
George Rose,
Stephan Hanan,
Tony Azito,
Alexandra Korey
William Elliott, conductor
Original Broadway Cast Album
Columbia Records
1982 Peter Allen,
Janis Kelly,
Gillian Knight,
Alexander Oliver,
Keith Michell,
Brian Donlan,
Paul Hudson,
Kate Flowers
Alexander Faris,
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra
VHS: Polygram
Cat: 632 5283 (Video); OperaWorld PIR10V (Video)[5]
1990 Malcolm Rivers,
Marilyn Hill-Smith,
Susan Gorton,
Philip Creasy,
Eric Roberts,
Gareth Jones,
Simon Masterton,
Patricia Cameron
John Pryce-Jones
Chorus and Orchestra of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
CD: TER 1177; Showtime SHOW CD010 (CD) (85'24)[6]
1993 Donald Adams,
Rebecca Evans,
Gillian Knight,
John Mark Ainsley,
Richard Suart,
Nicholas Folwell,
Richard Van Allan,
Julie Gossage,
Charles Mackerras,
Chorus & Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera
CD: Telarc
Cat: 80353[7]
1994 Anna Butera
Helen Donaldson
Jon English
Susie French
Simon Gallaher
Marc James
Toni Lamond
Melissa Langton
Derek Metzger
Tim Tyler
Kevin Hocking CD: CD:ABC/EMI Records
Cat: 4797752

For a more complete discography up to 2009, see Marc Shepherd's discography at the Gilbert and Sullivan archive.[8]

References

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  1. ^ Jacobs, Arthur (1986). Arthur Sullivan: A Victorian Musician. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 129. ISBN 0-19-282033-8.
  2. ^ Shepherd, Marc. "The Sargent/EMI Pirates (1961)". Gilbert & Sullivan Discography. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Recordings: G & S". Gramophone. Vol. 67, no. 2. 1989. p. 1379.
  4. ^ Philip H. Dillard (1996). Sir Arthur Sullivan: A Resource Book. Scarecrow Press. p. 299.
  5. ^ Bowker's Complete Video Directory 2000. R. R. Bowker. 2000. p. 1210.
  6. ^ "Classical Pops". Gramophone. Vol. 68. 1990. p. 616.
  7. ^ Christopher Pollard (1992). The Good CD guide, 1993. General Gramophone Publications in association with Quad Electroacoustics. p. 698.
  8. ^ Shepherd, Marc. "Recordings of The Pirates of Penzance", Gilbert & Sullivan Discography, 9 July 2009