Sunday, July 13, 2014

Pirates of Penzance

A friend and I saw a performance of the Pirates of Penzance yesterday at the Lake Harriet bandshell. So much fun! I will be singing this all week.

Poking around in Youtubelandia, I found New Zealand's Essgee Company's performances. Great voices, wonderful staging and choreography, and some liberties with the original. Gilbert and Sullivan purists might not approve, but I love it.





 Linda Ronstadt is so beautiful as Mabel. What a voice!


A more operatically trained singer's performance of "Poor Wandering One." At the bandshell, the swallows all took off when the soprano did her first run.

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