London, UK. 7 May 2015. Andrew Shore as Major-General Stanley and Jonathan Lemalu as Police Sergeant. Dress rehearsal of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera &quot;The Pirates of Penzance&quot; at the London Coliseum. Award winning director Mike Leigh makes his operatic directing debut with The Pirates of Penzance. The ENO production opens at the London Coliseum on 9 May 2015 and runs for 14 productions until 27 June 2015. The English National Opera production is conducted by David Parry. Cast: Andrew Shore as Major-General Stanley, Joshua Bloom as The Pirate King, Alexander Robin Baker as Samuel, Robert Murray as Frederic, the Pirate Apprentice, Jonathan Lemalu as Sergeant of the Police, Claudia Boyle as Mabel, Soraya Mafi as Edith, Angharad Lyddon as Kate, Lydia Marchione as Isabel and Rebecca de Pont Davies as Ruth. Photo: Bettina Strenske