| Description |
1 online resource (1 sound file) |
| 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) |
| Notes |
Operetta in two acts |
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Libretto by William S. Gilbert |
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Recording 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 |
| Event |
Recorded 1991 September 2-4 Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, Wales |
| Notes |
Sung in English |
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Hard copy version record |
| Subject |
Operas.
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| Form |
Streaming audio
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| Author |
Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911, librettist.
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McLaughlin, Marie, 1954- singer.
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Watson, Janice, 1964- singer.
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Palmer, Felicity, singer.
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Howells, Anne, 1941-2022, singer.
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Rolfe Johnson, Anthony, singer.
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Folwell, Nicholas, singer.
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Stuart, Richard, 1951- singer.
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Van Allan, Richard, singer.
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Adams, Donald, singer.
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Mackerras, Charles, 1925-2010, conductor.
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Welsh National Opera, performer.
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