MIKADO

Mikado

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. It was the second-longest run for any work of musical theatre and one of the longest runs of any theatre piece up to that time.

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.

Mikado Backing Tracks : A More Humane Mikado  …  A Wand’ring Minstrel  …  As Some Day It Might Happen  …   Behold The Lord High Executioner  …  Flowers That Bloom In The Spring  …  For He’s Going To Marry Yum Yum  …  On A Tree By A River  …  The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze  …  Three Little Maids  …   Willow Tit Willow  …