The Pirates of Penzance

The Pirates of Penzance is a comic opera set in Victorian-era Cornwall, England, centring on Frederic, a young man mistakenly apprenticed to a band of soft-hearted pirates. As his 21st birthday approaches, he prepares to leave piracy behind, but his plans are complicated by his feelings for Mabel, the daughter of the well-meaning Major-General Stanley, and by the pirates' unusual sense of honour.