There is beauty in the bellow of the blast

RCA 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:
1,The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring: Jimmy Carroll; Earl Wrightson; Martha Wright and Sally Sweetland
2, Willow: Earl Wrightson;
3. There is beauty in the Bellow of the blast: Audrey Marsh & Wrightson
4. He's Gone and Married Youm-Yum; Sally Fields
5. Finale; Jimmy Carroll; Martha Wright; an entire Cast.
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.