As some day it may happen
Opera details:
Opera title: | The Mikado |
Composer: | Arthur Sullivan |
Language: | English |
Synopsis: | The Mikado Synopsis |
Libretto: | The Mikado Libretto |
Translation(s): | Not entered yet. |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Ko-Ko |
Voice(s): | Baritone |
Act: | 1 |
| Previous scene: | Our great Mikado virtuous man |
| Next scene: | A wandering minstrel |
"The Mikado" Pt 1...(Gilbert & Sullivan)...Al Goodman and Orch...RCA 45 set, mint condition.
Singer: Earl WrightsonRCA 45 rpm set #WK 23..Artist in this set are: Jimmy Carroll; Audrey Marsh; John Percival; Sally Sweetland; Martha Wright; Earl Wrightson; and the Guild Choristers. Condition of this set is as new so far as the surfaces and sound go. Heard on this set of sides:
If You Want to Know Who We Are: Guild Choristers
Gentlemen, I Pray You: Jimmy Carroll
A Wander'ing Minstrel I; Jimmy Carroll and Guild Choristers
Behold The Lord High Executioner: Guild Choristers
As Some Day It May Happen: Earl Wrightson and Guild Choristers
The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations. It opened on 14 March 1885, in London, where it ran at the Savoy Theatre for 672 performances, the second-longest run for any work of musical theatre and one of the longest runs of any theatre piece up to that time.[1][n 1] By the end of 1885, it was estimated that, in Europe and America, at least 150 companies were producing the opera.[2]
The Mikado remains the most frequently performed Savoy Opera, and is especially popular with amateur and school productions. The work has been translated into numerous languages and is one of the most frequently played musical theatre pieces in history. Setting the opera in Japan, an exotic locale far away from Britain, allowed Gilbert to satirise British politics and institutions more freely by disguising them as Japanese. Gilbert used foreign or fictional locales in several operas, including The Mikado, Princess Ida, The Gondoliers, Utopia, Limited and The Grand Duke, to soften the impact of his pointed satire of British institutions. Since the 1990s, some productions of the opera in the United States have drawn criticism for promoting stereotypes of East Asians.
Watch videos with other singers performing As some day it may happen:
6 - John Reed
6 - Peter Pratt
6 - Robert Carr
6 - Richard Suart
6 - Martyn Green
6 - Dennis Olsen
6 - Geraint Evans
6 - Earl Wrightson
6 - Richard Suart
7 - Donald Adams
7 - Richard Van Allan
6 - Geraint Evans
7 - Owen Brannigan
6 - Alan Styler
6 - Darrell Fancourt
6 - Martyn Green
6 - Richard Watson
Other videos of the same singers performing As some day it may happen:
6 - John Reed
6 - John Reed
6 - John Reed
6 - John Reed
6 - John Reed
6 - Richard Suart
6 - John Reed
6 - Martyn Green
6 - Peter Pratt
6 - Martyn Green
6 - Martyn Green
6 - Martyn Green
6 - Peter Pratt
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,I've got a little list--I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be missed--who never would be missed!
There's the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs--
All people who have flabby hands and irritating laughs--
All children who are up in dates, and floor you with 'em flat--
All persons who in shaking hands, shake hands with you like that--
And all third persons who on spoiling tete-a-tetes insist--
They'd none of 'em be missed--they'd none of 'em be missed!
CHORUS.
he's got 'em on the list;
And they'll none of 'em be missed--
they'll none of 'em be missed.
There's the banjo serenader, and the others of his race,
And the piano-organist--I've got him on the list!
And the people who eat peppermint and puff it in your face,
They never would be missed--they never would be missed!
Then the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,
All centuries but this, and every country but his own;
And the lady from the provinces, who dresses like a guy,
And who "doesn't think she waltzes, but would rather like to try";
And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist--
I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not he missed!
CHORUS.
he's got her on the list;
And I don't think she'll be missed--
I'm sure she'll not be missed!
And that Nisi Prius nuisance, who just now is rather rife,
The Judicial humorist--I've got him on the list!
All funny fellows, comic men, and clowns of private life--
They'd none of 'em be missed--they'd none of 'em be missed.
And apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind,
Such as--What d'ye call him--Thing'em-bob, and
likewise--Never-mind,
And 'St--'st--'st--and What's-his-name, and also You-know-who--
The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you.
But it really doesn't matter whom you put upon the list,
For they'd none of 'em be missed--
they'd none of 'em be missed!
CHORUS.
you may put 'em on the list;
And they'll none of 'em be missed--
they'll none of 'em be missed!
English Libretto or Translation:
Not entered yet.Sheetmusic in our database with this aria
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