Details

Part of the BBC Proms. Semi Staged. Following his earlier appearance this season conducting the music of Delius, Elgar and Holst (Prom 12), Sir Charles Mackerras returns as one of our greatest living exponents of G&S and, in the wake of conducting HMS Pinafore in 2005, he now presides over a specially created semi-staging of the 1881 operetta in which Gilbert took a swipe at the then fashionable Aesthetic movement and its artistic figurehead, Oscar Wilde. Approx. finish time: 22:10

Cast/Performers

Rebecca Bottone (Patience), Felicity Palmer (Lady Jane), Pamela Helen Stephen (Lady Angela), Elena Xanthoudakis (Lady Ella), Sophie Louise Dann (Lady Saphir), Simon Butteriss (Reginald Bunthorne), Toby Stafford-Allen (Archibald Grosvenor), Donald Maxwell (Colonel Calverley), Graeme Danby (Major Murgatroyd), Bonaventura Bottone (Lt Duke of Dunstable)

Creatives/Company

Music: Sullivan
Company: Chorus of English National Opera
Conductor(s): Charles Mackeerras (Sir), Alex Briger (assistant)
Director: Martin Duncan
Choreographer: Steve Elias (assistant director)