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The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations. It opened on 14 March 1885, in London , where it ran at the Savoy Theatre for 672 performances, the second-longest run for any work of musical theatre and one of the ...
The most successful of the Savoy Operas was The Mikado (1885), which made fun of English bureaucracy, thinly disguised by a Japanese setting. Gilbert initially proposed a story for a new opera about a magic lozenge that would change the characters, which Sullivan found artificial and lacking in "human interest and probability", as well as being ...
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Lithograph from The Mikado. During this time, Gilbert and Sullivan also collaborated on one other major work, the oratorio The Martyr of Antioch, premiered at the Leeds music festival in October 1880. Gilbert arranged the original epic poem by Henry Hart Milman into a libretto
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"Three Little Maids from School Are We", sometimes listed as "Three Little Maids", is a song from Act I of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Mikado.The song is a trio for three female characters who are schoolmates; at the end of the song, the three are joined by the chorus of female schoolmates.
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The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu: Two-Act Comic Opera (Arthur Sullivan) Savoy 1885-03-14 Ruddygore; or, The Witch's Curse [retitled Ruddigore after a few days] Two-Act Comic Opera (Arthur Sullivan) Savoy 1887-01-22 The Yeomen of the Guard; or, The Merryman and his Maid: Two-Act Comic Opera (Arthur Sullivan) Savoy 1888-03-10 Brantinghame Hall