| Other author/creator | Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911 librettist. |
| Other author/creator | Adams, Donald performer. |
| Other author/creator | Rolfe Johnson, Anthony, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Stuart, Richard, 1951- performer. |
| Other author/creator | Van Allan, Richard performer. |
| Other author/creator | Folwell, Nicholas, performer. |
| Other author/creator | McLaughlin, Marie, 1954- performer. |
| Other author/creator | Howells, Anne, 1941-2022 performer. |
| Other author/creator | Watson, Janice, 1964- performer. |
| Other author/creator | Palmer, Felicity performer. |
| Other author/creator | Mackerras, Charles, 1925-2010 conductor. |
| Other author/creator | Welsh National Opera, performer. |
| Contents |
Act one. If you want to know who we are (3:01) -- A wandering minstrel (4:20) -- Our great Mikado, virtuous man (2:57) -- Young man, despair, likewise to go (2:43) -- And I have journeyed for a month (0:49) -- Behold the Lord High Executioner (2:39) -- As some day it may happen (2:00) -- Comes a little train of ladies (2:12) -- Three little maids from school are we (1:32) -- So please you, sir, we much regret (1:55) -- Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted (2:26) -- I am so proud (3:00) -- With aspect stern and gloomy stride (14:22) -- Act two. Braid the raven hair (3:25) -- The sun, whose rays are all ablaze (3:10) -- Brightly dawns our wedding day (3:58) -- Here's a how-de-do! If I marry you (1:14) -- Miya sama, miya sama (2:46) -- A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist (4:04) -- The criminal cried as he dropped him down (3:24) -- See how the Fates their gifts allot (2:03) -- The flowers that bloom in the spring (1:36) -- Alone, and yet alive (2:55) -- On a tree by a river, a little tom-tit sang, "Willow, tit-willow" (2:29) -- There is beauty in the bellow of the blast (2:00) -- For he's gone and married Yum-Yum (1:52). |
| General note | Streaming audio files. |
| General note | Title from resource description page (viewed June 20, 2019). |
| General note | Operetta in two acts. |
| General note | Libretto by William S. Gilbert. |
| General note | Recording does not include overture and most spoken dialogue. |
| Performer |
Marie McLaughlin, Janice Watson, sopranos ; Felicity Palmer, Anne Howells, mezzo-sopranos ; Anthony Rolfe Johnson, baritone [i.e. tenor] ; Nicholas Folwell, Richard Stuart, baritones ; Donald Adams, bass ; Richard Van Allan, bass-baritone ; Orchestra and Chorus of the Welsh National Opera ; Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Brangwyn Hall,Swansea, Wales, September 2-4, 1991. |
| Language | Sung in English. |
| Issued in other form | Original cat. no.: CD-80284 |
| Genre/form | Operas. |