Gilbert and Sullivan: The Mikado Vocal Score Chappell 1895
£29.95
Vocal score of The Mikado or, The Town of Titipu. Quite tatty, old and in well used condition. First produced at The Savoy Theatre, London, on Saturday, 14th March 1885, and re-produced on Wednesday 6th November 1895 under the management of Mr. R. D’Oyly Carte.
Vocal score of The Mikado or, The Town of Titipu. Quite tatty, old and in well used condition. First produced at The Savoy Theatre, London, on Saturday, 14th March 1885, and re-produced on Wednesday 6th November 1895 under the management of Mr. R. D’Oyly Carte.
ARRANGEMENT FOR PIANOFORTE
BY GEORGE LOWELL TRACY (OF BOSTON, U.S.A.)
OF THE ABOVE-NAMED OPERA,
BY W. S. GILBERT and ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Vocal Score complete – net 5s. 0d.
Ditto – bound – net 7s. 6d.
Pianoforte Score complete – net 3s. 0d
Libretto – net 1s. 0d
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1885. by GEORGE L. TRACY, in the office of the Librarian of Congree at Washington. Entered at Stationers’ Hall. All righis reserved.
London:
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd. 50, NEW BOND ST., W
About The Mikado
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 14th 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 longest runs of any theatre piece up to that time. By the end of 1885, it was estimated that, in Europe and America, at least 150 companies were producing the opera.
The Mikado is the most internationally successful Savoy opera and has been especially popular with amateur and school productions. The work has been translated into numerous languages and is one of the most frequently played musical theatre pieces in history. The Mikado is a satire of late 19th century British institutions, society and politics. By setting the opera in a fantasy Japan, an exotic locale far away from contemporary Britain, Gilbert was able to satirise British politics more freely and soften the impact of his criticisms of British social institutions, in a similar way that he used other “foreign” settings in Princess Ida, The Gondoliers, Utopia, Limited and The Grand Duke.
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