The Pirates (opera)

The Pirates is an opera by composer Stephen Storace with an English libretto by James Cobb.

The work was partly adapted from Storace's 1786 opera Gli equivoci and is remarkable as affording one of the earliest instances of the introduction of a grand finale into an English opera.

[2] The opera became a huge success and is considered by many music critics to be Storace's best composition.

Storace reused some of the music from his 1785 opera Gli sposi malcontenti in The Pirates.

[5] On 29 November 1827, the opera was revived at Drury Lane with the title Isidore de Merida.