It felt good to laugh again. Cincinnati Opera’s production of “The Pirates of Penzance,” which opened on Thursday in Music Hall, offered about a laugh a minute.
There was that goofy band of pirates, who were more like Peter Pan’s Lost Boys, led by the swashbuckling Pirate King. There was the love story between an indentured pirate (who should have been a pilot – get it?) and a sweet maiden. The policemen did their best to march in lock-step, but they somehow came across as the Keystone…
