| Work Title
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The Mikado
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| Alternative. Title
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The Town of Titipu
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| Name Translations
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Der Mikado; Mikadon; El Mikado; ミカド; أوبرا ميكادو; 미카도; Микадо; 帝王 (1939年電影); 帝王 (1939年电影); 米卡多; میکادو; המיקאדו; اوبرا ميكادو; Mikado (operetka); Микадо (дуурь)
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| Name Aliases
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Three Little Maids from School; The mikado; El mikado; ミカド (喜歌劇); 日本天皇 (歌劇); 帝王; 日本天皇
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| Authorities
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WorldCat; [ Wikipedia]; VIAF: 2311147270547335700006; LCCN: n82227762; GND: 300159099; BNF: 139200534
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| Composer
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Sullivan, Arthur
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| Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.
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IAS 86
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| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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2 acts
- Overture (created per Sullivan's instructions by Hamilton Clarke)
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- 1. If you want to know who we are (Chorus of Men)
- 2. A Wand'ring Minstrel I" (Nanki-Poo, Men)
- 3. Our Great Mikado, virtuous man (Pish-Tush, Men)
- 4. Young man, despair (Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo, Pish-Tush)
- 4a. Recit., And have I journey'd for a month (Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo)
- 5. Behold the Lord High Executioner (Ko-Ko, Men)
- 5a. As some day it may happen (Ko-Ko, Men)
- 6. Comes a train of little ladies (Girls)
- 7. Three little maids from school are we (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Girls)
- 8. So please you, Sir, we much regret (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Girls)
- 9. Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo)
- 10. I am so proud (Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko, Pish-Tush)
- 11. Finale I (Ensemble)
- With aspect stern and gloomy stride
- The threatened cloud has passed away
- Your revels cease! ... Oh fool, that fleest my hallowed joys!
- For he's going to marry Yum-Yum
- The hour of gladness ... O ni! bikkuri shakkuri to!
- Ye torrents roar!
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- 12. Braid the raven hair (Pitti-Sing, Girls)
- 13. The sun whose rays are all ablaze (Yum-Yum)
- 14. Brightly dawns our wedding day (Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Poo, Pish-Tush)
- 15. Here's a how-de-do (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko)
- 16. Mi-ya Sa-ma; From every kind of man obedience I expect (Mikado, Katisha, Chorus)
- 17. A more humane Mikado (Mikado, Chorus)
- 18. The criminal cried as he dropped him down (Ko-Ko, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Chorus)
- 19. See how the Fates their gifts allot (Mikado, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko, Katisha)
- 20. The flowers that bloom in the spring (Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah)
- 21. Recit. and song, Alone, and yet alive (Katisha)
- 22. On a tree by a river Willow, tit-willow (Ko-Ko)
- 23. There is beauty in the bellow of the blast (Katisha, Ko-Ko)
- 24. Finale II (Ensemble)
- For he's gone and married Yum-Yum
- The threatened cloud has passed away
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| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.
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1885
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| First Performance.
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1885-03-14 in London, Savoy Theatre.
- D'Oyly Carte Opera Company ; Sir Arthur Sullivan (conductor)
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| First Publication.
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1885 (vocal score); 1893? (full score)
- Vocal score (London: Chappell & Co.), 152 pages
- Full score (Leipzig: Bosworth & Co.), 333 pages
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| Librettist
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William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
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| Language
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English
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| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Romantic
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| Piece Style
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Romantic
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| Instrumentation
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voices, mixed chorus (SATB), orchestra
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| InstrDetail
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Cast
- The Mikado of Japan (bass or bass-baritone)
Nanki-Poo, His Son, disguised as a wandering minstrel and in love with Yum-Yum (tenor)
Ko-Ko, The Lord High Executioner of Titipu (comic baritone)
Pooh-Bah, Lord High Everything Else (baritone)
Pish-Tush, A Noble Lord (baritone)
Go-To, A Noble Lord (bass-baritone)
Yum-Yum, A Ward of Ko-Ko, also engaged to Ko-Ko (soprano)
Pitti-Sing, A Ward of Ko-Ko (mezzo-soprano)
Peep-Bo, A Ward of Ko-Ko (soprano or mezzo-soprano)
Katisha, An Elderly lady, in love with Nanki-Poo (contralto)
Mixed Chorus (SATB)
- School-Girls, Nobles, Guards and Coolies
Orchestra
- 2 flutes (2nd also piccolo), oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon
2 horns, 2 cornets, 2 trombones
timpani, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, snare drum, strings
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| Related Works
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Pieces based on 'The Mikado'
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| Discography
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Gilbert & Sullivan Discography
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| External Links
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Wikipedia article; Gilbert & Sullivan Archive
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| Extra Information
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There is some confusion about the actual date of issue for the Bosworth full score. The entry for this work (p.577) in James Fuld's The Book of World-Famous Music mentions an issue of 25 copies from Bosworth as early as 1893, despite the given date of 1898 in the biography by Arthur Lawrence published in 1899. The entry in Monatsbericht (1900), p.03 (October) is likewise mentioned, though this seems late.
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