Insight Series: Pirates of Penzance - A Story of Operatic Proportions
Saturday, October 10, 2026 at 3 PM

Maryland Hall, Room 308
801 Chase Street, Annapolis, MD

*Free event! Registrations required.

Premiered on December 31, 1879 in New York City, Pirates of Penzance was an instant hit. After its April 1880 London debut, Gilbert and Sullivan’s seminal work enjoyed some 363 performances at the Opera Comique alone! They created fourteen operas together during their 25 year-long collaboration, but this one remains one of the most popular of their famed collaboration. Join Maestro Kier as he explores what makes this opera, as one critic present for the premiere called, “a brilliant and complete success.”