The Mikado was the ninth of fourteen Gilbert & Sullivan operatic collaborations. It opened on March 14, 1885, in London, where it ran at the Savoy Theatre for 672 performances. To this day, it is the most popular and most performed of their operas. It has also been translated into many languages.
Song Notations (courtesy of Anthony Rule): "Braid the raven hair" - 00:35 "The sun whose rays are all ablaze" - 3:26 Madrigal, "Brightly dawns our wedding day" - 6:37 "Here's a how-de-do" - 10:34 "Miya Sama" - 11:48 "A more humane Mikado" - 14:34 "The criminal cried as he dropped him down" - 18:39 "See how the Fates their gifts allot" - 22:03 "The flowers that bloom in the spring" - 24:06 Recit. and song, "Alone, and yet alive" - 25:43 "On a tree by a river" - 28:39 "There is beauty in the bellow of the blast" - 31:09 Finale Act II, "For he's gone and married Yum-Yum" - 33:11 "The threatened cloud has passed away" - 33:50
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--CAST--
The Mikado of Japan-----------------------Donald Adams Nanki-Poo--------------------------------------Anthony Rolfe Johnson Ko-Ko--------------------------------------------Richard Suart Pooh-Bah---------------------------------------Richard Van Allan Pish-Tush---------------------------------------Nicholas Folwell Yum-Yum--------------------------------------Marie McLaughlin Pitti-Sing---------------------------------------Anne Howells Peep-Bo----------------------------------------Janice Watson Katisha-----------------------------------------Felicity Palmer
Chorus of Schoolgirls, Nobles, Guards and Coolies
Orchestra and Chorus of the Welsh National Opera Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras
Recorded 1992
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