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The Mikado is a 1967 British musical film adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1885 comic opera of the same name. The film was directed by Stuart Burge and was a slightly edited adaptation of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company 's production of The Mikado and used all D'Oyly Carte singers.
Video recordings of The Mikado include a 1972 offering from Gilbert and Sullivan for All; the 1982 Brent-Walker film; [132] the well-regarded 1984 Stratford Festival video; and the 1986 English National Opera production (abridged). Opera Australia have released videos of their 1987 and 2011 productions. [116]
The Mikado is a 1939 British musical comedy film based on Gilbert and Sullivan's 1885 comic opera The Mikado. Shot in Technicolor , the film stars Martyn Green as Ko-Ko, Sydney Granville as Pooh-Bah, the American singer Kenny Baker as Nanki-Poo and Jean Colin as Yum-Yum.
Best known as Pooh-Bah in the Stratford Festival production of The Mikado ... 20 March 1951 – 19 February 2017) was a Canadian film, television and stage actor.
Suart as Bunthorne in Patience alongside Gillian Knight as Lady Jane. Richard Suart (born September 1951) is an English opera singer and actor, who has specialised in the comic roles of Gilbert and Sullivan operas and in operetta, as well as in avant-garde modern operas.
Theatre poster, 1879. H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert.It opened at the Opera Comique in London on 25 May 1878, and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time.
It turns out, however, that the law provides that wives of married men who are beheaded must be buried alive. After the Mikado arrives in the town, all of the complications are eventually resolved, and Yum-Yum is able safely to marry Nanki-Poo. The song is the 7th musical number in Act 1 of The Mikado. It is written in 2/4 time in the key of C ...
The Cool Mikado is a British musical film released in 1963, directed by Michael Winner starring Frankie Howerd, Lionel Blair and Stubby Kaye. [1] It was produced by Harold Baim , with music arranged by Martin Slavin and John Barry .