This is one of the best productions of this Gilbert and Sullivan classic, perhaps the greatest of all their operettas.
@mathewdallaway3 жыл бұрын
It's not an operetta. Blasphemy.
@Nicholas329063 жыл бұрын
@@mathewdallaway it is an operetta, though I would like to know why you say it is not
@65NART3 ай бұрын
@@mathewdallawayoh shut up. Go and find something else with which to occupy your time. It has become a classic.
@arthurwaite9762 жыл бұрын
Nice touch having Katisha dragging Ko-Ko off to the wings, to have him dash back, partially unclothed.... Adds texture to the finale.
@eloise89229 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite production by a lot...
@andrewwarner77489 жыл бұрын
I think the best performance I've heard of this jewel of a piece.
@maryfowler20458 жыл бұрын
I love the English humor and productions. They are wonderful. They know how to do it right---wonderful humor and entertainment. God Bless the artists in Britton.
@jamierourketen6 жыл бұрын
Britain x
@johnleach78795 жыл бұрын
Mary, you neglected to say your country of origin: Oz? Can.? U.S.? NZ? N. Korea? Afg? Pak?
@endora11643 жыл бұрын
An amazing achievement, setting it in the 1920s is simply lavish. A glorious production.
@bettyottman17182 жыл бұрын
Culture in the 1920s
@cruisematt85855 жыл бұрын
Eric Idle is everything
@maryfowler20458 жыл бұрын
I am going to purchase a copy of this production and watch it until I die.
@grahammichaels46478 жыл бұрын
Best version ever. Thanks Jonathan and Eric
@natkobitz8937 жыл бұрын
Incredible performance. Does anyone have recordings of; "The Black Mikado", I saw in London ~50 years ago. It was great. Titipu moved to Africa, music, a jazz, but faithful modification. All-black, very talented cast, except for Pooh Bah who was a thin 6 1/2 foot tall white actor, all in white plus a white top hat. Great show. Probably couldn't be run today.
@mariaashot56488 жыл бұрын
Sublime! Just stupendous!
@NgaireWadman9 жыл бұрын
Utterly glorious! Thank you so much for making this available.
@bobapbob58126 жыл бұрын
Love this production
@shaneculkin71244 жыл бұрын
This truly is an outstanding and super fun production. I have watched (literally) countless times and have purchased several copies to friends and family as gifts. FUN FACT some may already know: Once Idle left this production, Koko was then played by Dudley Moore. A replacement I can easily picture but have yet to see even a photo from it.
@netram283 жыл бұрын
I think I'd rather see Dudley Moore in the part. He is far more musical for starters.
@ValerieClapham7 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@thomashogan165 жыл бұрын
What a gift from the Victorian past. Lovely production in every way. Even as an Irishman I can say this!
@maryfowler20458 жыл бұрын
Who needs laughs when the performance is outstanding!
@ARCtheCartoonMaster3 жыл бұрын
Wait... why are they still saying "raven" hair if Yum-Yum is a redhead in this version? Have these people never seen a raven?
@Panwere367 жыл бұрын
This is a masterpiece that lends itself to adjustment for modern interpretation. Every time they tweak the songs (like I've Got A Little List and Let The Punishment Fit The Crime), the main body of the operetta stays relevant. It is about hypocrisy and the pitfalls of legislating morality, particularly when it emboldens those who shouldn't be allowed such position. Also.. the woman playing Katisha in this production is very attractive for her age.
@treesny26 күн бұрын
Dame Felicity Palmer (b. 1944) had a long and distinguished international career as a singer, first as a soprano and then as a mezzo-soprano. Her recorded legacy ranges from Handel and Mozart to Verdi, Elgar and Richard Strauss; along the way she played Mrs. Lovett in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and did fine recordings of many of the Rosina Brandram roles in the G&S repertoire with conductor Sir Charles Mackerras.
@gilltoosey38447 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! The Mikado in this looks like the godfather!
@trionabyrne724 жыл бұрын
He's kinda too large in this 1920s British style.
@maryfowler20458 жыл бұрын
Thank you You Tube. I even laughed a little so far.
@maryfowler20458 жыл бұрын
Laughter shouldn't be an indication of a great performance. I have watched Count Ory and didn't laugh once, but the performance was great, Seattle's performance in July. I hate canned laughter and I am mezmearized by great talent. This performance and the performance I recently viewed in Seattle had people laughing, but I never laughed once. But, the performance like this one is so beautiful and the talent and beauty of the performance is what holds me glued to my seat. I don't have to laugh at disignated parts suggested or indicated to enjoy a performance. If an audience feels laugher is needed or desired, in their opinion, then let it be. Not everybody has to laugh if the whole place laughs.
@roylamberton95767 жыл бұрын
I lit Mikado at Northwestern in 1973. I love the show and all the variations.
@clasystems6 жыл бұрын
This truly is something different.,
@tonyyoung39855 жыл бұрын
In our college production of the "Kabuki Mikado," Koko drew his wakiazashi . . . Makes more sense culturally though a short sword won't behead anyone.
@kennethsloan8335 жыл бұрын
Love ENO!!!!! LIKE THIS VERSION BETTER THAN THE LATER ONE..
@maryfowler20455 жыл бұрын
Terrific
@metahodson44884 жыл бұрын
The New Mikado is set in Italy and is just as enjoyable as this and the original set in Japan.
@damiendill82646 жыл бұрын
As Dame Ethel Smythe replied to Sullivan when he said that his opera Ivanhoe was the best of him, NO Sir Arthur the Mikado is the best of you I must agree
@execelsior9993 жыл бұрын
If only these musical plays were produced today.
@lrandel99 Жыл бұрын
Absolutly agree. They don't make them like this anymore.
@bettyottman1718 Жыл бұрын
Yes They do still.
@AustrianAdrian4 жыл бұрын
I just saw the production two days ago :)
@trionabyrne2176 жыл бұрын
Yeah you can make the mikado musical in different versions and humors
@laurabeane8862 Жыл бұрын
I like the Groucho Marx version of "Here's a Pretty Howdy-Do!", as well😄
@EricIrl4 жыл бұрын
I know the lady who is in the chorus of girls singing in the back row at 1.34 into the clip. She is still a member of the ENO. Wasn't this version produced by Jonathan Miller, who sadly passed away only a few days ago?
@PlanetBobstar3 жыл бұрын
Pretty good looking Katisha
@katherinewilson18534 жыл бұрын
Who else thinks Nanki-Poo is the master manipulator?
@nts8212 жыл бұрын
He'll make a good mikado.
@bettyottman1718 Жыл бұрын
He's a Young man, His Dad is the Emperor of Japan.
@treesny26 күн бұрын
Almost all of Gilbert's characters are ultimately out for themselves, however much they conceal their self-centeredness under social politeness. That's one of the things that makes Gilbert such a ferociously fine satirist!
@trionabyrne724 жыл бұрын
34:18 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@JamesVlogsHomeBeyond2 жыл бұрын
Richard Angas reprises his Mikado role in this production after he first performed it for TV for the BBC 14 years prior. I bet it must've been boiling wearing the suit.
@tylermiller15409 жыл бұрын
The fact that the mikado in this version is made to be fat cracked me up. I the production i was in the guy playing the mikado was tiny and short.
@spacewarpphotography16678 жыл бұрын
+Tyler Miller The first Mikado I saw was played by William Conrad, who quite a heft himself. You should see Richard Angas, though. Tall, fierce, freaky looking!!
@spacewarpphotography16678 жыл бұрын
+Tyler Miller o_O The Mikado in this was Richard Angas as well ! Okay, it must have been make-up in the other one, then.
@agingerwithachainsaw8 жыл бұрын
+Spacewarp Photography the first mikado I saw the mikado was Christopher Lee.
@trinitymplayers7 жыл бұрын
As I noted above, the actor was channeling the late character actor Robert Morley, right down to the heavy eyebrows.
@trinitymplayers7 жыл бұрын
Traditionally, it's Pooh-Bah who's made to look fat.
@Nicholas329064 жыл бұрын
What is that that Ko-Ko is carrying in his left arm?
@ftumschk2 жыл бұрын
It's a loofah, a kind of elongated bath sponge, useful for scrubbing the back.
@superbill17524 жыл бұрын
Bene Factum!
@klassicalkid903 жыл бұрын
Who is singing Katisha?
@gemoonopra3 жыл бұрын
Felicity Palmer
@tomasinacovell42934 жыл бұрын
I don't understand why they chose to do it as aristocratic British rather than the original libretto's Japanese style, I mean the names and references don't match, it's as though it's mocking it?
@Xerxes20054 жыл бұрын
That opera was meant to mock the British to begin with. So why not make the characters English? I think it was a creative interpratation of that play. I rather liked Poo-Bah as a stuffy english aristocrat.
@sparkizoidful4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely wonderful on many levels, not least in that it solves the problem of yellow face that currently makes this show problematic. It was a satire of English attitudes, so why not do it in absurd 1920s English costumes? (The naysayers here sound an awful like the pompous prigs being mocked in the show.)
@treesny26 күн бұрын
The "problem of yellow face" is nonsense. The choice of Japan as a very thin disguise for a satire on English society (which never fooled anyone for an instant) has to do with both cultures have a rigid class structure, as well as a certain societal separation of women and men. Racism/racialism has never entered into it. If some modern productions have chosen to use "yellow face," there is certainly nothing in the script or the history of the D'Oyly Carte company to support such a choice. The piece works wonderfully well in this "Englished" version by director Jonathan Miller, and equally well in the excellent Japan-set 1973 BBC studio production conducted by David Lloyd-Jones (with a terrific cast), which can be found elsewhere on KZbin.
@andrewwarner77489 жыл бұрын
I think the tempi may be too fast
@agingerwithachainsaw8 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU!!!!!
@johnangelico6678 жыл бұрын
+Andrew Warner I'm not sure about tempi outright, but I think maybe there is a video production problem. The audio seems out of sync.
@bettyottman17182 жыл бұрын
Shame, Someone cut out the 2017 one.
@marianellison58538 жыл бұрын
I just think it doesn't work when they sing about Lord high executioner and the emperor of Japan whilst being very English and wearing 20's attire. They just seem a contradiction.
@MateusVIII8 жыл бұрын
+Marian Ellison At a first glace it is true, but the Mikado was written as a satire to the Victorian society in England, disguised behind feudal Japan. That means that there is a wonderful irony on beeing very English, as the true intention of the play is to portray the English society.
@Sapphonouveau8 жыл бұрын
+MateusVIII Yes! And in a way, it's not difficult to imagine the 'Japanese'-isms being almost a kind of slang that that certain strata of posh society would adopt in their odd isolated outpost (it's very much like a British embassy somewhere).
@DaveLH6 жыл бұрын
It's like Jonathan Miller's uncostumed production of "Alice in Wonderland" -- Show the characters as what they're satirizing, not as how they (usually) are physically described.
@WolfGratz6 жыл бұрын
Which is kind of the point.
@Xerxes20054 жыл бұрын
@@DaveLH Ooh... I must see that. I wonder if it has been recorded.
@draganatanasov25038 жыл бұрын
I don't find the acting here very appropriate to be quite honest. They are all a little too posh with everything and a bit too poetic with the whole text. It needs a little bit of a different, more dramatic treatment.
@WolfGratz6 жыл бұрын
I rather like the concept although I was disappointed to hear Miller made the cast watch Brief Encounter for the accents. Lesley somewhat worryingly though Celia Johnson sounded "Terribly bright and well terribly, terribly bright" which misses the whole concept of Johnson's performance. But as I say this works quite well on it's own terms - and both the traditional Mikado and indeed Brief Encounter are still there.
@marianellison58538 жыл бұрын
Sorry, am I the only one who hates this version. How can you have the Emperor of Japan, dressed in English 1920's attire, why couldn't they leave it as Japanese. the words don't make sense with them all dressed like that. I like the traditional costumes better. The music and singing is glorious but the 1920's costumes look wrong.
@mariaashot56488 жыл бұрын
+Marian Ellison It's a lot of fun and you should not take the words too seriously, as witty as they are! Having seen the traditional version so many times, I find this updated production still perfectly true to the spirit and of course the antics of Eric Idle are too precious -- he is such a fine singer, as well!
@morbo30008 жыл бұрын
+Marian Ellison The Mikado was actually a commentary on Victorian England, not Japanese culture. It was only set in Japan to keep it from being extremely obvious that it was criticizing the problems in 19th century England. It seems a natural progression, then, to have the characters wear British attire when being performed some 90 years later.
@fredo10708 жыл бұрын
+Marian Ellison the joke is; this an operetta about England in the 1880s set in medieval Japan. The director then sets it in the future, the 1930s, which is now the past. Now that is Topsy Turvy. The funny thing is the jokes still hold today.
@lapponia778 жыл бұрын
+Marian Ellison I think the contradiction is what makes it funny.
@janehoskins13668 жыл бұрын
Doesn't work. Disappointed.
@martind3495 жыл бұрын
Fundraiser
@anniespencer78794 жыл бұрын
Works for me.
@65NART4 ай бұрын
Only for you it doesn’t work. Don’t speak for us all , thank you.
@WillScarlet168 жыл бұрын
Sorry, this whole production is just too stilted - no wonder there's hardly any laughs from the audience. Eric is the only one in this cast with any liveliness at all.
@ronshelley7248 жыл бұрын
This version of Mikado is very poor compared to the Stratford Festival production - in fact just plain lousy poorly produced and acted - not worth watching - a minus 10 rating
@davidwilliamklak6 жыл бұрын
I’m sorry but this version’s singing blows Stratford Festival’s away. Also gotta give them credit for keeping it unique in the adaptation department
@Tocsin-Bang5 жыл бұрын
Probably the worst Mikado I have ever seen.
@trionabyrne724 жыл бұрын
The Mikado looks different in this version.
@phillipabbott35436 жыл бұрын
lip sync is so bad it almost looks like it was dubbed...