Brent Carver stars as the swashbuckling Pirate King in the famous Stratford Festival's rollicking production of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic that pits British bobbles against unlikely pirates on the Cornish coast. Sullivan regarded this operetta - a hit ever since its first production in New York in 1879 - as the best comedy he composed. He even said of his collaborator "The libretto is ingenious clever wonderfully fun in parts and sometimes brilliant in dialogue - beautifully written for music as is all Gilbert does." Indeed audiences will find the music every bit a match for the lyrics with the genius of the score lying in its parody of grand opera. Filmed in 1985 at the world-famous Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford Ontario.
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