Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, The Mikado.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: USA Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: This 1953 classic spotlights the careers of W.S. Gilbert (Robert Morley, The African Queen), a barrister turned-comic-writer, and Arthur Sullivan (Maurice Evans, Planet Of The Apes), a classic composer (converted against his will) to light music, who together wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and Iolanthe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STOSummary: "Cloaked in the guise of a Japanese musical drama, The Mikado is a spoof of Victorian English society. Centered on Ko-Ko, a lowly tailor, it chronicles his transformation from prisoner in a country jail to the rank of Lord High Executioner. But Ko-Ko is plagued by a terrible quandary: the emperor has instructed him to produce a head -- or forfeit his own!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the U.S. by Acorn Media 1999
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MIKSullivan, Arthur
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca Record Co. 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD O SULSummary: HMS Pinafore: Ralph Rackstraw, a humble sailor, is smitten with the captain's daughter, Josephine, a woman far above his social rank. When Josephine declares her love for Ralph, the couple decide to elope. Their plans are thwarted, but the lovers are reunited when Ralph's true social position is revealed. Trial by jury: Jurors and reporters gather in a courtroom for a much-publicized case...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2005
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA GILSummary: Iolanthe used to be the life and soul of Fairyland but was banished 25 years ago for marrying a mortal. Now, pardoned by the Fairy Queen she returns as a beautiful teenager, but with a 24-year-old son, Strephon, who is half fairy, half mortal. He is in love with Phyllis, a ward of the rather susceptible Lord Chancellor. For a while, these complications wreck havoc with the proceedings of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2002
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA IOLSummary: Frederic has led a sheltered life, despite being apprenticed to a Pirate King as a child. When he arrives in Penzance with his boisterous shipmates, there are surprises in store for him, including falling in love and some inconvenient discoveries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA PIRSullivan, Arthur
Summary: Hilarion, awaiting the arrival of Princess Ida, who was betrothed to him twenty years earlier, learns that she has renounced mankind and formed a women's university.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2002
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA PRISummary: The parody of British Victorian life, spiced with the usual topical allusions to English customs and institutions, set in a Japanese Never-Never Land, is performed by The Australian Opera.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Australian Opera 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MIKContents: Behold! The Lord high executioner / "The Midado" -- Overture / "The Mikado" -- Three little maids from school are we / "The Mikado" -- Overture / "Princess Ida" -- If you give me your attention / "Princess Ida" -- Paris galop -- Mi-ya sa-ma and A more humane Mikado / "The Mikado" -- Bust soft ... why, where be 01? / The Sorcerer" -- Alone -- The criminal cried as he dropped him down / "The...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC TopSummary: The irrepressible Eric Idle (Monty Python's Flying Circus) teams up with the English National Opera in this hilarious performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's beloved comic opera, THE MIKADO. This rollicking version of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular tale relocates the action from ancient Japan to a 1920s English seaside resort. Here the rule of the Mikado is absolute--and often prone to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MIKSummary: Each Lord of Ruddigore is cursed to commit a crime a day or die. Robin, who is the Lord of Ruddigore living incognito to avoid the family curse, is exposed and forced into a life of crime until logic offers an ingenious solution and reunion with Rose Maybud.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2002
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA RUDSullivan, Arthur
Contents: Ruddigore -- The tempest (incidental music) -- The merchant of Venice, suite.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 1992