the mikado

     

The Mikao, 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 March 14, 1885, in London, where it ran at the Savoy Theatre for 672 performances, which 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. Before the end of 1885, it was estimated that, in Europe and America, at least 150 companies were producing the opera.The Mikado remains the most frequently performed Savoy Opera, and it 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.

Trivia about the mikado

  • His son, Nanki-Poo, poses as a minstrel & later weds Yum-Yum
  • Nanki-Poo & Ko-Ko appear in this W.S. Gilbert libretto
  • Yum-Yum, who is due to marry Ko-Ko, falls in love with the minstrel Nanki-Poo in this operetta
  • The creativity in your mount of Apollo means you should try out for this operetta, as Pooh-Bah
  • Director Peter Sellars' 1983 production of this operetta turned Nanki-Poo into a rock star on a motorbike
  • "It was", as the program put it, "an entirely new and original Japanese opera in two acts"
  • Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum & Nanki-Poo are all characters in this operetta
  • A perennial favorite, it is set in a rather inauthentic version of Japan

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