Question

An early copyright performance for an opera titled for this profession had only one rehearsal that resulted in members of D’Oyly Carte’s (“DEE-OIL-ee CART’s”) performing company carrying scripts on-stage. An opera titled for this profession borrowed a song from the unfinished opera Thespis that is sung by maidens climbing a rocky landscape. Members of this profession attempt to kidnap a group of women while singing “Here’s a first rate opportunity” (20[1])before being interrupted (20[1])by a famous (*) “patter song.” (10[1])A man born on a leap year is apprenticed to a “rollicking (10[1])band” of this profession, despite his love for a daughter of the “modern Major-General.” (10[1])For 10 points, name this profession of Frederic and his adopters in a Gilbert and Sullivan opera set along the coast of Penzance. ■END■

ANSWER: pirates [accept The Pirates of Penzance; accept Pirate King or Pirate Apprentice; prompt on Lieutenant or Apprentice; prompt on privateers or robbers or bandits or buccaneers or thief or thieves; prompt on sailors or seamen or mariners]
<Ethan Ashbrook, Fine Arts - Opera&gt; ~26097~ &lt;Editor: Young Lee>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Arjun KalaUniversity LabDallas County6720
Alvin GuoWinston Churchill ASt. Mark's7020
Sam MacchiBelmontHunter A7510
Aatreyo BhattacharyyaMira LomaThomas Jefferson C8710
Ali HamzehKinkaidTroy10110

Summary

2023 PACE NSC06/10/2023Y4100%25%0%83.25
2023 PACE NSC06/10/2023Y1100%100%0%67.00