Gilbert & Sullivan: Mikado - Excerpts 

Great performance. Amazing thought that Sullivan did all the orchestration sitting at his desk. His music sounds as fresh today as when it was composed.

Thank you for this. I've always wanted to see the violin score for the opening song. It's complexity did not disappoint.

A lovely condensed version thanks for the upload

This is great..kudos to whomever put the arrangement together, it's awesome. I listen to it quite often!!

Wow, post some more of it. I was an usher in a theater and I first heard of the "Mikado" from the film "Foul Play".

This is so fun to play!

As featured in Foul Play

@ilfranchi New York City Opera, condotta da Julius Rudel.

I read somewhere that mya sama is the only Japanese music in the whole opera.

it is from a movie foul play

So annoying that there are adverts interrupting this constantly

Which recording of the mikado is this; that is to say who are some of the performers, and what year is it?

Yes, Miya Sama is the only genuine Japanese song in the whole piece. It was actually part of an Imperial marching song that Sullivan adapted. The verse translates roughly as "Oh my Prince, what is that fluttering in the wind before your Imperial horse?" The second verse, which Sullivan didn't use, translated roughly as the Imperial flag to subdue the rebels.

so they played opera in shawshank reneption

what orchestra is this?

Some of the tempos in the overture are quite (too) fast.

No wonder the Pope was tapping his feet.