Nanki-Poo loves Yum-Yum. Just one snag. She’s betrothed to Ko-Ko, the new Lord High Executioner. And Ko-Ko needs to find someone to execute otherwise, it’s his own neck on the block.
The Baronets of Ruddigore are cursed. Anyone who succeeds to the title has to commit a crime every day — or perish in inconceivable agony..
Mix a crew of orphan pirates, a hard of hearing nursery maid, a five-year old hero, a pretty heroine, a swashbuckling Pirate King, a mendacious Major General with a covey of daughters, and a squad of timid policemen.
Twenty-five years previous to the action of the opera, Iolanthe, a fairy, had committed the capital crime of marrying a mortal.
