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Gilbert and Sullivan’s greatest success, and still the most popular of the Savoy operas, The Mikado exploited the craze for Japanese culture that had been sweeping London in the years before its premiere in 1885. Its exotic setting allowed Gilbert to satirise British society with relative impunity and sometimes macabre wit in a plot which, though driven by the constant threat of violent execution, inspired some of Sullivan’s most delightful and touching music. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado
“The first and most orchestrally spirited of the Sargent G&S series, with crisp delivery from the Japanese courtiers and a top-notch pair of lovers of Lewis and Morison.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2008 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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1950 cast including Martyn Green | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Robert Rounseville (Nanki Poo), Dennis King (The Mikado), Helen Traubel (Katisha), Barbara Meister (Yum Yum), Stanley Holloway (Pooh-Bah), Groucho Marx (Ko-Ko), Melinda Marx (Pepp-Bo), Sharon Randall (Pitti-Sing) Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra, Norman Luboff Chorus, Donald Voorhees | 
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| |  | abridged; produced for the Bell Telephone Hour television series. Originally telecast April 29, 1960
Groucho Marx (Ko-Ko), Helen Traubel (Katisha), Stanley Holloway (Pooh-Bah), Dennis King (Mikado), Robert Rounseville (Nanki-Poo), Barbara Meister (Yum-Yum)Sharon Randall (Pitti-Sing), Melinda Marx (Peep-Bo) & Martyn Green (Host / Adaptation) For the legendary comic actor Groucho Marx, playing the role of Ko-Ko in The Mikado “fulfilled a lifelong ambition.” The Mikado was Groucho’s favorite among the works of his beloved Gilbert and Sullivan, and the 1960 Bell Telephone Hour production was adapted for television and directed by Martyn Green, a man Groucho revered as an authority on interpreting the role of Ko-Ko. The score is condensed to fit into The Bell Telephone Hour's 60-minute format (allowing room for commercials), but the adaptation was done with great ingenuity and finesse by Gilbert and Sullivan authority Martyn Green. The strong supporting cast features distinguished veterans like Helen Traubel, Stanley Holloway, Robert Rounseville, and Dennis King, as well as young artists like the lovely soprano Barbara Meister as Yum-Yum and Groucho’s 13-year-old daughter, Melinda, as Peep-Bo. Special features [46 minutes] include audio interviews with Dick Cavett, Melinda Marx, and Barbara Meister; Martyn Green in excerpts from H.M.S. Pinafore (Bell Telephone Hour, 1963, in color), cast bios, the commercials from the original telecast, and more! B&W, 4:3, 52 minutes, All Regions | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Recorded 2011 The Arts Centre, Melbourne
Richard Alexander (The Mikado), Kanen Breen (Nanki-Poo), Taryn Fiebig (Yum-Yum), Mitchell Butel (Ko-Ko), Warwick Fyfe (Pooh-Bah) & Jacqueline Dark (Katisha) Opera Australia Chorus & Orchestra Victoria, Brian Castles-Onion (conductor) & Stuart Maunder (director) Designer: Tim Goodchild Choreographer: Carole Todd Lighting Designer: Derek Coutts Perhaps the most widely-loved and hilarious of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Savoy Operas, this classic production by Opera Australia creates a fantastical, imaginary Japan. With amazingly detailed sets, lavish costumes and a fabulous cast astutely directed by Stuart Maunder, this comic operetta sparkles from beginning to end. The music is pure joy, with an amazing performance drawn from Orchestra Victoria by the superb conductor Brian Castles-Onion. “With Kanen Breen's Nanki-Poo, all toffee-nosed accent and sunshine grins, you can at least enjoy a disciplined performer with a ringing voice; Taryn Fiebig (yum-Yum) is equally disciplined, and adroit at pointing her lines...Meanwhile, Pooh-Bah, Katisha and the Mikado all need weightier, more resonant voices to make their characters work.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2012 ** “ it is very vivid and memorable, clearly based on a live and vividly amusing production...Mitchell Butel as Ko-Ko has a very Broadway-type actor’s voice, but certainly knows what to do with it and his diction is superb...This recording will probably appeal mostly to listeners for whom the cast are well known: supporters of Australian Opera. For those of us for whom the cast are mainly just names, the recording just has too much mugging and extra-musical verbiage. Annoying or characterful, it depends on your point of view.” MusicWeb International, August 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Recorded 2011 The Arts Centre, Melbourne
Richard Alexander (The Mikado), Kanen Breen (Nanki-Poo), Taryn Fiebig (Yum-Yum), Mitchell Butel (Ko-Ko), Warwick Fyfe (Pooh-Bah) & Jacqueline Dark (Katisha) Opera Australia Chorus & Orchestra Victoria, Brian Castles-Onion (conductor) & Stuart Maunder (director) Designer: Tim Goodchild Choreographer: Carole Todd Lighting Designer: Derek Coutts Perhaps the most widely-loved and hilarious of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Savoy Operas, this classic production by Opera Australia creates a fantastical, imaginary Japan. With amazingly detailed sets, lavish costumes and a fabulous cast astutely directed by Stuart Maunder, this comic operetta sparkles from beginning to end. The music is pure joy, with an amazing performance drawn from Orchestra Victoria by the superb conductor Brian Castles-Onion. Audio DVD/2.0 LPCM/5.1 DTS Picture format NTSC Audio BD LPCM stereo and 5.0 DTS-HD Master Audio “If it's colour you want, Opera Australia's 1985 production of The Mikado, revamped in 2004, has it in spades...But if you're after reasonable taste and G&S traditions subtly tweaked, look away...Goodchild's designs are good fun, but you might need to activate the English subtitle option to catch some of the chorus's words” BBC Music Magazine, September 2012 ** “Stuart Maunder’s production is fast-paced and much detailed carefully planned stage business holds the audience’s attention...All characters sing superbly and the vocal numbers are a joy to listen to...The contribution by the musical director and the orchestra was first class. A new and fresh version of the overture has been substituted for the traditional one.” MusicWeb International, June 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Recorded 2011 The Arts Centre, Melbourne
Richard Alexander (The Mikado), Kanen Breen (Nanki-Poo), Taryn Fiebig (Yum-Yum), Mitchell Butel (Ko-Ko), Warwick Fyfe (Pooh-Bah) & Jacqueline Dark (Katisha) Opera Australia Chorus & Orchestra Victoria, Brian Castles-Onion (conductor) & Stuart Maunder (director) Designer: Tim Goodchild Choreographer: Carole Todd Lighting Designer: Derek Coutts Perhaps the most widely-loved and hilarious of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Savoy Operas, this classic production by Opera Australia creates a fantastical, imaginary Japan. With amazingly detailed sets, lavish costumes and a fabulous cast astutely directed by Stuart Maunder, this comic operetta sparkles from beginning to end. The music is pure joy, with an amazing performance drawn from Orchestra Victoria by the superb conductor Brian Castles-Onion. “If it's colour you want, Opera Australia's 1985 production of The Mikado, revamped in 2004, has it in spades...But if you're after reasonable taste and G&S traditions subtly tweaked, look away...Goodchild's designs scream for attention, especially in the Blu-ray edition (very crisp and bouncy).” BBC Music Magazine, September 2012 ** “Stuart Maunder’s production is fast-paced and much detailed carefully planned stage business holds the audience’s attention...All characters sing superbly and the vocal numbers are a joy to listen to...The contribution by the musical director and the orchestra was first class. A new and fresh version of the overture has been substituted for the traditional one.” MusicWeb International, June 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado
Despite being, by common consent, the best of three post-war D’Oyly Carte Opera Company recordings of The Mikado, this sparkling early stereo performance with Donald Adams, Thomas Round and Peter Pratt has never been reissued by its parent label during the CD era. As it was not recorded with dialogue, the extra space has enabled Magdalen to include not only John Hollingsworth’s vivid version of Pineapple Poll but also, for the first time on CD, three overtures conducted con brio by the inimitable Arthur Fiedler. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Gillbert & Sullivan: The Mikado (1950)
Margaret Mitchell (Yum-Yum), Martyn Green (Ko-Ko), Ella Hallman (Katisha), Darrell Fancourt (The Mikado), Leonard Osborn (Nanki-Poo), Richard Watson (Pooh-Bah), Alan Styler (Pish-Tush), Joan Gillingham (Pitti-Sing), Joyce Wright (Peep-Bo) New Promenade Orchestra, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Isidore Godfrey | | | (also available to download from $21.00) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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