The Mikado
Show Details
- AKA
- Town of Titipu, The
- Music
- Arthur Sullivan (100)
- Lyrics
- W. S. Gilbert (63)
- Book
- W. S. Gilbert (63)
- Type
- Operetta
- Notes
- One of the most popular and enduring of all the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, THE MIKADO, was first performed on 14 March 1885, at the Savoy Theatre, London, conducted by the composer and presented by Richard D'Oyly Carte. The iniital run was for 672 performances. The creation of THE MIKADO forms the basis for Mike Leigh's 1999 film TOPSY-TURVY.
- Premiere
- March 14, 1885
Recordings
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The Mikado - 1966 Radio Cast |
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The Mikado - 2010 Lyric Opera of Chicago |
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Building a Library: The Mikado - 2017 BBC Radio Documentary |
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Titipu - BBC Television Cast |
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Songs also appear on these recordings (3)
Songs
- Behold the Lord High Executioner (2)
- Mi-ya-sa-ma Mi-ya-sa-ma (2)
- A Wand'ring Minstrel I (2)
- Alone, and yet alive (3)
- And have I journey'd for a month
- As some day it may happen (I've Got a Little List)
- Braid the raven hair
- Brightly dawns our wedding day
- Comes a train of little ladies
- The criminal cried as he dropped him down (2)
- The flowers that bloom in the spring (2)
- For he's gone and married Yum-Yum
- Grentlemen, I pray you tell me
- Here's a how-de-do!
- I am so proud
- If you want to know who we are (2)
- A more humane Mikado (4)
- On a tree by a river (Willow, Tit-willow) (2)
- Our Great Mikado, virtuous man
- Overture
- See how the Fates their gifts allot
- So please you, Sir, we much regret
- The sun whose rays are all ablaze (2)
- There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
- Three little maids from school are we (4)
- Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
- With aspect stern and gloomy stride
- Young man, despair
- Your revels cease!
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