The Mikado / Gilbert & Sullivan.

Author/creator Sullivan, Arthur composer.
Format Audio (Streaming)
PublicationCleveland, OH : Telarc, 1992.
Description1 online resource (80 minutes)
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?CLMU;2129703
Subjects

Other author/creatorGilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911 librettist.
Other author/creatorAdams, Donald performer.
Other author/creatorRolfe Johnson, Anthony, performer.
Other author/creatorStuart, Richard, 1951- performer.
Other author/creatorVan Allan, Richard performer.
Other author/creatorFolwell, Nicholas, performer.
Other author/creatorMcLaughlin, Marie, 1954- performer.
Other author/creatorHowells, Anne, 1941-2022 performer.
Other author/creatorWatson, Janice, 1964- performer.
Other author/creatorPalmer, Felicity performer.
Other author/creatorMackerras, Charles, 1925-2010 conductor.
Other author/creatorWelsh 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 noteStreaming audio files.
General noteTitle from resource description page (viewed June 20, 2019).
General noteOperetta in two acts.
General noteLibretto by William S. Gilbert.
General noteRecording 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 noteRecorded Brangwyn Hall,Swansea, Wales, September 2-4, 1991.
LanguageSung in English.
Issued in other formOriginal cat. no.: CD-80284
Genre/formOperas.

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