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A stiff example with beautiful plummage, such as a Norwegian Blue that had rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisibule, would have been ideal.

There were more than a few raised eyebrows when Scottish Opera announced that one of its meagre tally of four mainstage productions this season was to be a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.

Marking a triumphant return from a ten year absence, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company bursts back onto the stage with an historic collaboration with Scottish Opera; taking an all-singing, all-dancing, richly theatrical production of The Pirates of Penzance on an extended, major UK tour following its premiere at Theatre Royal Glasgow tonight 15th May ... (more)

A 58-show UK tour of The Pirates Of Penzance will prove a good training ground for Scottish Opera's latest batch of emerging artists, discovers Mark Smith She urges him to stay.

When "The Pirates of Penzance" comes to the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center on Saturday, the audience will see the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera much as it was performed in Victorian England.