I absolutely love this version of the Pirate King! Combining all the bling and opulence of Captain Hook with swashbucklery and mannierisms of Captain Jack Sparrow is fantastic!
Even D’Oyly Crafts production changed their cultural references over the years. The original production of Iolanthe costumed the Queen of the Fairies as a Wagnerian Valkyrie, but by the 1960s, her costume looked more like Glinda from Wizard of Oz. 1:09:30
An excellent production. Only surpassed by the first production which I saw: the 1980 NY Shakespeare Festival one starring Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith, in NYC's Central Park.. Ronstadt had told producer Joseph Papp that she wanted to do the show, and he told her she didn't have thole voice. To her credit, she took 2 years to study voice, and she aced Mable, the most difficult G&S part. It was in this production that the wonderful patter Trio, "It Really Doesn't Matter" was pirates from Ruddigore. The Police Sargent of that production seemed to be made of rubber, doing a wonderful dance while swinging his night stick . The theater is outdoors, and next to a lake, which was visible when the pirate ship slid into place. It was magical. So is this production.
An absolute joy. Ive seen many productions of The Pirates and it's always good but this is the best Ive ever seen. Great nod to Jack Sparrow from the Pirate King...Johnny would approve ❤
I first heard their trial by jury which is sooooo good and this one absolutely surpasses it which i didn't think was possible! Incredible!!!! Way to throw in really doesn't matter 🤩🎶🎉🎊
As much as I love Opera Australia and this production, I could still really only watch it once. But I can watch the essgee 1994 version with Jon English as the Pirate King over and over again and never get tired of it.
A pretty well perfect production. Australian Opera has really led the way in their G&S productions. Their ability to make the sometimes over-wordy dialogue genuinely funny by snappy pace and excellent comedy timing is wonderful. They take comparatively few liberties but when they do, it´s utterly appropriate. There´s no sense of burlesquing the original, but rather achieving Gilbert´s intentions for a modern audience. The dynamic blocking and choreography is a huge contributor, as is the elegant stylised setting. And it is musically first rate, with leading actor/singers who surpass all I have seen before. Thank you for this, and especially for providing the subtitles.
Robbie Hagberg I think you we are going to go to the store for a bit of a sunroom and get it tomorrow to the store and doing that come to my house and get a new one for you was it tomorrow and I can go to the you and I can go
3:55 ruth song 9:16 ruth who you loved so much ? 14:45 take me with you Fred and Ruth duet 20:30 sister song/scene 30:56 Mabel Entrance 34:57 Mabel and sister song 55:55 sister sleep song 56:38 Mabel solo moment 1:07:00 Ruth sing (plan) 1:17:45 Mabel (Frederick stay) 1L42:36 Ruth 1:45:11 Poor wandering
This production is as fine and fun as the Joseph Papp film of the Broadway musical whence it derives. My word! That’s a sentence worthy as any G&S circumlocution in song!
This is the perfect balance. It avoids being boring, unfunny and stale (like many of the D'Oyle Carte performances), while also avoiding being dumbed-down, slapstick, and bowdlerized (like the 1983 movie).
Thank you. Incidentally I played The Pirate King in our bilingual Irish/english school version at age 11. I am still crazy about it. It seems to have survived 'Me Too' Thank God :)
@@maestromuffin1 Wow! But originally from G&S's Ruddigore! (I know that patter song well -- I wrote and sang a parody of it as part of my admissions package for Williams College -- and got in! 🙂)
I live in North Carolina. Blackbeard was taken out by the Navy in Ocracoke. But it's true that there was a lot of give-and-take between the pirates and the royalty. He had been given a pardon from the queen but continued to regroup his pirates. Lieutenant Robert Maynard sent his Navy troops to finish off Blackbeard.
An excellent and original presentation - I could be wrong but most of the sets looked lacklustre and unimaginatative compared to other productions - but as I said I could be wrong.,
I heard my first G & S at 14 on old pre-electric 78's which my school-mate's father gave him when he "updated". to electric recordings. So what I heard was recorded before 1928 by some of the D'Oyley-Carte cast who had been actually been directed. There are of course variations in this performance, but it is pedantic to insist on a pure Victorian production. I enjoyed it immensely. Some of the previous Opera Australia productions were too gimmicky - Was it the Lord High Executioner who popped up out of a barrell? And if so, why? Remember Gilbert's notice to cast "There will be a further rehearsal on Sunday to delete the improvements." The part is never greater than the whole
I"m assuming the higher keys in the 2 opening men's numbers is because the chorus is all baritenors and so is the PK. Don't they have any bass baritones in Australia?
I know I'm going to enjoy this production, but did no one notice that the ship's pennant is flying the wrong way? If they were on a speeding boat, it would trail behind them as shown; but since they are on a ship with sails, the pennant would be pointing forward, since that's the way the wind is blowing. Pedantic of me, I know, but it gives me something to do.
This was very well done. At the age of 11, I played the Pirate King in a bilingual Irish/english school production in Cork, Ireland and Pirate/Police chorus in San Francisco in my 30's. I loved the singing but feel the nod to Sparrow was completely unnecessary and took from the production. Less is more as demonstrated by the police sergeant who has a lovely voice and didn't overdo the antics of other productions.
This is a great version in the main but why does David Hobson sing consistently under the note and what's with his bleating vibrato? I thought an opera company would be using properly trained singers.
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The concept for the pirates have changed periodically often based on current cultural references, Earlier 20th century productions often had the “Captain Hook” look. Joseph Papp’s production in the late 70s emulated a yiunger and more dashing Errol Flynn type (as played by Kevin Kline and others). For the early 21st century, the main “pirate” reference in popular culture is the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, so it makes sense to use that reference.
@@mjmacmtenorthat's a very good expalanation, plus the production is from 2006, and Pirates of the Carribean was huge then. I think it was a year before "At World's End" was in theaters.
I agree, Jon English lent his own rock star aura to the character. This one is very good, but why be Captain Jack Sparrow? Put your stamp on it, like Jon English did.
@@lois3444 Exactly. Making the Pirate King look like Jack Sparrow distracts from the main show. It'd be like doing a performance of The Mikado and having Nanki-Pu dressed in a yellow tracksuit like Bruce Lee
Hate to break it to you, Sunshine, but Pirates of the Caribbean was out roughly three years before this. And it's Johnny. If you want to troll someone, get your facts straight and learn to spell.
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I absolutely love this version of the Pirate King! Combining all the bling and opulence of Captain Hook with swashbucklery and mannierisms of Captain Jack Sparrow is fantastic!
It is probably well different from a D'oyley Carte production, but I love it!
Even D’Oyly Crafts production changed their cultural references over the years. The original production of Iolanthe costumed the Queen of the Fairies as a Wagnerian Valkyrie, but by the 1960s, her costume looked more like Glinda from Wizard of Oz. 1:09:30
I enjoyed this more than Pirates of the Caribbean
One of the better Jack Sparrow voices I've heard, too.
He's so obviously trying to Imitate Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow that I find it a little off-putting.
superb production. G & S enthusiast of 73 years. Bless you all.
39:00 is about when the Major-General’s Song starts, for anyone looking for it
Lol, you know it.
Thanks a ton :)
Hero, thank you.
An excellent production. Only surpassed by the first production which I saw: the 1980 NY Shakespeare Festival one starring Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith, in NYC's Central Park.. Ronstadt had told producer Joseph Papp that she wanted to do the show, and he told her she didn't have thole voice. To her credit, she took 2 years to study voice, and she aced Mable, the most difficult G&S part.
It was in this production that the wonderful patter Trio, "It Really Doesn't Matter" was pirates from Ruddigore.
The Police Sargent of that production seemed to be made of rubber, doing a wonderful dance while swinging his night stick .
The theater is outdoors, and next to a lake, which was visible when the pirate ship slid into place.
It was magical.
So is this production.
I also love the Papp in the Park production This is my next favorite.
Kevin Kline as the Pirate King, Patricia Routledge as Ruth!
An absolute joy. Ive seen many productions of The Pirates and it's always good but this is the best Ive ever seen. Great nod to Jack Sparrow from the Pirate King...Johnny would approve ❤
I first heard their trial by jury which is sooooo good and this one absolutely surpasses it which i didn't think was possible! Incredible!!!! Way to throw in really doesn't matter
🤩🎶🎉🎊
"Really doesn't matter" was added already in Joe Papp's production of 1980.
This is beautiful when you've watched Pinafore 50 times, and are trying to figure out how Sir Joseph became a Scottish General
Oh, do you now the artist name?
He probobly was the best "Monarch of the see" I`ve ever herd(he acts realisticly and sings amasingly)
@@kirillbush6457 His name is John Bolton-Wood
‘twas easy, G & S made it so.
The older I get the more astonishing I find the genius of G&S, and I worked in opera for 30 years.
This has to be my favorite Pirates of Penzance production I’ve seen!
Great performance! Great quality visuals and audio and immaculate performances and acting all around! Thank you!
As much as I love Opera Australia and this production, I could still really only watch it once. But I can watch the essgee 1994 version with Jon English as the Pirate King over and over again and never get tired of it.
I actually went to see this in London when Tim Curry was the pirate king then later with Paul Nicolas and Michael Ball as Frederick
I saw that performance on the Gold Coast it was wonderful.
Simon Gallaher’s production is the yardstick by which all other Pirates are measured
This is hands down my favourite production of the G&S PoP ive ever seen
Always loved this version, even though Frederic is the oldest looking 21 you’ve ever seen 😂
I think you meant the oldest looking 5 and a quarter
@@diegogonzalezfernandez9237 - true!
Life as pirate-apprentice is taxing... but rewards you with lots of experience😉
Okay, in truth David Hobson's about 46 here but I don't think you come to enjoy G&S if you're overly bothered by reality.
I really enjoyed seeing this production in Sydney. It's great to be able to watch it again on RUclips. Anthony Warlow and David Hobson are superb.
This is by far the best Maybel I have ever seen! And their interpretation of Men of Dark and Dismal Fate is my favorite one yet! Incredible!
I agree. Superb production. The best ive ever seen of many.
The same cast from my favourite productions of Pinafore and Trial by Jury! Thanks for sharing this!
Excellent Production. Kudos to all. What a true delight from start to finish. I LOVED it.
A pretty well perfect production. Australian Opera has really led the way in their G&S productions. Their ability to make the sometimes over-wordy dialogue genuinely funny by snappy pace and excellent comedy timing is wonderful. They take comparatively few liberties but when they do, it´s utterly appropriate. There´s no sense of burlesquing the original, but rather achieving Gilbert´s intentions for a modern audience. The dynamic blocking and choreography is a huge contributor, as is the elegant stylised setting. And it is musically first rate, with leading actor/singers who surpass all I have seen before. Thank you for this, and especially for providing the subtitles.
Nice the P.P. has a good cast and using 1980 stage props. This is the 2nd time seeing this and I recommend this stage play.
Happy Leap Day to everyone watching on this fitting occasion!
Robbie Hagberg I think you we are going to go to the store for a bit of a sunroom and get it tomorrow to the store and doing that come to my house and get a new one for you was it tomorrow and I can go to the you and I can go
Brilliant interpretation of Pirates. Australians always have such fun with G & S.
What an amazing production thank you very much for this. Much loved. Thank you.
Magnificent! Loved every moment!
Happy birthday, Frederic!
Best I have seen so far! Bravo!
best production i'd ever seen.
This production is marvelous! Wish I had a chance to see it live
Loved every minute of it.
Wow, they really went full Jack Sparrow with the Pirate King.
One of the best Ruths I've seen - sings tunefully not like the overacted characters I've seen before. All the cast fabulous! Great production.
Thoroughly enjoyed that; thank you so much!!!
The police captain is the best, the expressions kill me everytime
Sad to read that Taryn Fiebig (the actress who played Mabel) passed away in 2021 with ovarian cancer. RIP Taryn.
3:55 ruth song
9:16 ruth who you loved so much ?
14:45 take me with you Fred and Ruth duet
20:30 sister song/scene
30:56 Mabel Entrance
34:57 Mabel and sister song
55:55 sister sleep song
56:38 Mabel solo moment
1:07:00 Ruth sing (plan)
1:17:45 Mabel (Frederick stay)
1L42:36 Ruth
1:45:11 Poor wandering
OH GOD FINALLY I FOUND IT! Thank you sooo much!!
What a treat! And Ruth ! (Maid of all work) - shoulders the hawser to berth the ship! Wonderful ❤❗️
This production is as fine and fun as the Joseph Papp film of the Broadway musical whence it derives.
My word! That’s a sentence worthy as any G&S circumlocution in song!
1:31:00 After all this singing, these four minutes of - nearly - absolute silence were such a wonderful contrast.
I believe I heard the footfall of a fly, though. Really disturbed my tranquility.
This is the perfect balance. It avoids being boring, unfunny and stale (like many of the D'Oyle Carte performances), while also avoiding being dumbed-down, slapstick, and bowdlerized (like the 1983 movie).
Boring? Not at all
I agree, but I think this was over the top and a bit crude with the Pirate King. That is saying something as I am a merchant seaman :)
@@DONALOSULLIVAN-b9x I can see your point.
Thank you. Incidentally I played The Pirate King in our bilingual Irish/english school version at age 11. I am still crazy about it. It seems to have survived 'Me Too' Thank God :)
OMG. It caught me a little bit off guard when they began to sing "It really doesn't matter".
I know! How'd that get in here?!
@@Danatomasino22 taken from the broadway production by Joseph Papp. Also shows up in Thoroughly Modern Millie!
@@maestromuffin1 Wow! But originally from G&S's Ruddigore! (I know that patter song well -- I wrote and sang a parody of it as part of my admissions package for Williams College -- and got in! 🙂)
@@Danatomasino22 and I got used to "sorry her lot" which I inserted both times I directed Pirates.
Brilliant. I’m looking forward to the performance in Brisbane December 2024
This is my first time seeing this production.
The pirate captain is so fine im ngl
0:41 I immediately thought this was ride of the valkyries
Extremely well recorded!
Fantastic performance.
amazing
Splendid! ❤
I live in North Carolina. Blackbeard was taken out by the Navy in Ocracoke. But it's true that there was a lot of give-and-take between the pirates and the royalty. He had been given a pardon from the queen but continued to regroup his pirates. Lieutenant Robert Maynard sent his Navy troops to finish off Blackbeard.
BRILLIANT
This is the best "Pirates" I've seen, including D'oily Carte.
Love it. Anthony warlow is my secret crush.
Not my crush, but I waited for the end crawl to learn who played the best Pirate King ever.
He's the best in everything he's in
Look for the Australian Opera version of "Patience" parts of which are also on RUclips - Warlow plays Archibald Grosvenor and he kills it!
@@maicey_t.He's down right the best Henry Jekyll/Hyde too! His voice in that is sooooo freaking yummy!!!!!!
Brilliant - such fun!
If you have the recording of Anthony Warlow in HMS Pinafore Id be ecstatic to see it
It is on RUclips
Kevin Costner/Linda ❤ Ronstadt is still my favourite. But this is #2! 🎉
sorry honey, but it was Kevin Kline, not Costner. the latter was fulfilling his unfulfilled dreams in Iowa.
Wonderful tip of the hat to THE WIZARD OF OZ (Ruth comes up through the floor near the end of the first act.)
This pirate just look like Johnny Depp in his own movies Pirate Of Caribbean
An excellent and original presentation - I could be wrong but most of the sets looked lacklustre and unimaginatative compared to other productions - but as I said I could be wrong.,
I dunno. I’d say the costumes and acting far make up for any set deficiencies.
David hobson makes this, though jon english was something else again!!
I heard my first G & S at 14 on old pre-electric 78's which my school-mate's father gave him when he "updated". to electric recordings. So what I heard was recorded before 1928 by some of the D'Oyley-Carte cast who had been actually been directed. There are of course variations in this performance, but it is pedantic to insist on a pure Victorian production. I enjoyed it immensely. Some of the previous Opera Australia productions were too gimmicky - Was it the Lord High Executioner who popped up out of a barrell? And if so, why? Remember Gilbert's notice to cast "There will be a further rehearsal on Sunday to delete the improvements." The part is never greater than the whole
I"m assuming the higher keys in the 2 opening men's numbers is because the chorus is all baritenors and so is the PK. Don't they have any bass baritones in Australia?
fabulous performance. Using captain jack sparrow too.
I know I'm going to enjoy this production, but did no one notice that the ship's pennant is flying the wrong way? If they were on a speeding boat, it would trail behind them as shown; but since they are on a ship with sails, the pennant would be pointing forward, since that's the way the wind is blowing.
Pedantic of me, I know, but it gives me something to do.
AH .
Im not the only one who noticed such problems, I'm glad.
Behind the scenes set
What is the song after when you have left your pirate fold? I’ve never heard this before was this added in?
Ye Gods! My family actually WERE Queen's Pilots, in charge of the Service between Spithead and the Nore, at the time.
What's John Hamm doing playing Frederic?
this Fredrick wishes he were Jon Hamm!
definitive!
This was very well done. At the age of 11, I played the Pirate King in a bilingual Irish/english school production in Cork, Ireland and Pirate/Police chorus in San Francisco in my 30's. I loved the singing but feel the nod to Sparrow was completely unnecessary and took from the production. Less is more as demonstrated by the police sergeant who has a lovely voice and didn't overdo the antics of other productions.
This is a great version in the main but why does David Hobson sing consistently under the note and what's with his bleating vibrato? I thought an opera company would be using properly trained singers.
Something something something with the eggs on top
Why did you remove the other videos you just uploaded, especially the Orpheus and The Underworld one?!!!
not publicly visible
@@玫瑰五月花瓣 your privated them, that's what you mean, right?
Besides, there are other ways to make a YT video not publicly visible aside from privating, such as unlisting the video or even deleting it.
@@玫瑰五月花瓣 and where did you find the English Orpheus in The Underworld video?
1:31:00
Fredrick singing of bad complexion.....tee hee! gosh, that was snarky - he's really quite lovely.
Paradox part: 1:05:31
Doesn't matter part: 1:12:36
The major general comes 1:34:30
1:35:39: Heaven Speed thee Poplar tree
39:45
Good thing I could get subtitles. I couldn't recognize any words many of them sang, especially Mabel.
Is one of the police a female? Just wondering
1:16:07
Absolute political roast of Britain.
The vocals are fantastic. But why does the Pirate King look, sound and act like Captain Jack Sparrow?
The concept for the pirates have changed periodically often based on current cultural references, Earlier 20th century productions often had the “Captain Hook” look. Joseph Papp’s production in the late 70s emulated a yiunger and more dashing Errol Flynn type (as played by Kevin Kline and others). For the early 21st century, the main “pirate” reference in popular culture is the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, so it makes sense to use that reference.
@@mjmacmtenorthat's a very good expalanation, plus the production is from 2006, and Pirates of the Carribean was huge then. I think it was a year before "At World's End" was in theaters.
Growing up with the John English version, this captain is hard to watch.
I agree. Jon will always be the Pirate King to me.
Great performance, but for me it's hard to top Jon English as the Pirate King. But I'm a big fan, so it leaves me bias.
I agree, Jon English lent his own rock star aura to the character. This one is very good, but why be Captain Jack Sparrow? Put your stamp on it, like Jon English did.
@@lois3444 Exactly. Making the Pirate King look like Jack Sparrow distracts from the main show. It'd be like doing a performance of The Mikado and having Nanki-Pu dressed in a yellow tracksuit like Bruce Lee
I found it very boring at the beginning until the General cane on the scene
The person playing Frederic is too old for the part. Frederic is 21.
he’s also not a strong enough singer for the part
So we see where Johnie Depp stole the pirate character.
Hate to break it to you, Sunshine, but Pirates of the Caribbean was out roughly three years before this. And it's Johnny. If you want to troll someone, get your facts straight and learn to spell.
Robbie Hagberg Osman called the person enzymes I was dating a parrot they called me when I was in the play room and pause it and I can go to bed early and then go back to sleep now and then go back and sleep in the bed if you want
Australia butchering a classic opera!
And out of the thousands (at least) who have seen it, YOU'RE the only one complaining.
it's... just possible the subtitles at 1:05:12 are wrong. it still gets the meaning across though 👍
1:21:06