Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado

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Presented by Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado is an enduringly popular comic opera with memorable music endearing characters and some of the wittiest lyrical comedy in the English language. Featuring much loved songs such as “I’ve Got A Little List” (the better known title of “As Someday it May Happen”) “A Wand’ring Minstrel I” “Three Little Maids From School Are We” “The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring” and many more.

Nanki-Poo loves Yum-Yum but she’s betrothed to Ko-Ko the new Lord High Executioner. When the Mikado (or emperor) orders a beheading Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko try to come to an arrangement that doesn’t involve anyone losing their head! However the arrival in town of the spurned Katisha turns everything topsy-turvy. With melodious mischief and preposterous plots the tangled web unravels; will the punishment fit the crime?

Gilbert’s imagined Japan was enriched by a London exhibition featuring a Japanese village inhabited by 100 citizens and the European obsession with everything Japanese following its re-opening to the world. The distracting beauty of his Japanese setting allowed Gilbert to get away with poking fun at the staid social norms absurd etiquette and weighty bureaucracy of a colonising Victorian England.

This delightful comic opera enjoyed immense popularity throughout Europe where 17 companies performed it 9000 times within two years of its premiere in 1885. And in 2006 the Japanese Tokyo Theatre Company presented The Mikado as part of the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in England.

Coming to Alexander Theatre Clayton 17-20 July and touring to regional Victoria (Queenscliff: 26 July; Stawell 2 Aug; Cowes 9-10 Aug.)

The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Victoria Inc (GSSV) founded in 1935 by JC Williamson's with the University of Melbourne the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Victoria is one of the three oldest continuously performing groups in Australia.

Its performing arm Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria offers high-quality and modestly-priced live theatre experiences specialising in sparkling Gilbert and Sullivan operettas classic Golden Era musicals and the rediscovery of charming musical and theatrical gems from the late 19th to early 20th century.

The Society is a registered charity independent and self-funded. 

Patron: Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Margaret Gardner AC. Governor of Victoria.

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