The Mikado 2011 Gilbert&Sullivan 

The production of enjoying the view of the nineteenth-century Japan and England from an equidistant distance is wonderful. Australia is great.

My gosh, this production is sheer brilliance! So engaging for a modern audience. Australia is cracking the code!

This may be my favorite production so far. The reimagining of Katisha as the Red Queen is fabulous.

The Mikado is my all time favourite G&S, thank you so much for this ☺

Very interesting overture. That's a new one for me!

Finally found it i was looking all over for this i remember in Australia it played on Television on one boxing day between 2013 and 2016 but i cant quite remember the year

This is a high-energy performance of "The Mikado" with an orchestra on overdrive and an absolute knockout Katisha. Sacrificed however are the original overture to a medley, and absent are the usual Japanese stereotypes.

Good, very good!!!

This actually is pretty good. Blending the aesthetics from both Victorian England (when the operetta was written) and Feudal Japan exaggerates the absurdities of the plot.

I can't bear to watch this now... both Taryn Fiebig and Jacqui Dark have left us... both of them far too young.

Who rewrote the overture? This is definitely not the 'traditional' overture! The differences are particularly evident wherever there is a melodic transition!?

Une version originale au niveau musical et de la mise en scène, 😊❤👍👍👍👍👍le loufoque élevé au rang d’art, c’est totalement DADA.

I really wish someone would upload this with better image quality. The DVD is long since out of print.

I really think this is one of the funnier KoKos I've seen.

It's been a few seconds and he's already a likeable character. 23:40 26:08 "Put a band-aid on it"

What fun! Groucho Marx was but an addition to an already perfect thing!

The overture was arranged by Stephen Dodgeson for recording by Sadler's Wells conducted by Alexander Faris on Music for Pleasure

...Windows on the World was on the 103rd floor of the North tower (1WTC); express elevator to the restaurant and lounge; good food and fantastic views!

My absolute favorite production of one of my favorite G&S operettas. I knew I was in love from the reorchestrated overture. The combination of Japanese and Victorian clothing is brilliant, reflecting the original dicitomy. Does the actor who played PooBah really look like Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, or is that all makeup? My one quibble: KoKo is YumYum's guardian, so should look a lot older.

This is such a wonderful production…😊

How would be a good way for me to find a download for this recording? -preferably with subtitles

what's up with the overture? it's a bit different

All praise to Gilbert and Sullivan for this masterpiece. But who put together that abortion of an overture? It's only redeeming feature are Sullivan's melodies but whoever did it needs to go back to Composition 1.01 and revise how to orchestrate.

The props from the original have lasted well.

I have been to the G and S festival in Harrogate some years ago and thoroughly enjoyed is, but is it my idea that there is something wrong with the speed of this production ? It feels like the orchestra and the cast are chased by wild dingo’s.

The original overture is far better.

1:47:48 lol

Too many liberties.

I really don’t like this version

This sucks

This Koko has no elegance. Pure over the top camp. Not my cup of tea!

OMG. This is awful. I swear I have seen some of the main actors in another production - especially Ko-Ko but I am really put off by this one. I am sorry, I am.

This one is just terrible and nowhere near the excellence of the D'Oyly Carte's 1966 one. This entire production looks just like a joke - the acting is way too over-dramatic and not at all serious, which put me off completely and I don't think G&S themselves would be happy about this. To name one, why the hell does Nanki-Poo put an weird evil grin on his face during "A wandering mistrel I" that makes him look like a national spy who's trying to do steal something??? Nanki-Poo is supposed to be poetic and romantic, my gosh please take a look at Philip Potter's portrait of this character.