Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The mikado [videorecording] / Thames Television in association with Clereical Medical Investment Group presents The English National Opera ; written by William S. Gilbert ; music by Arthur Sullivan ; produced and directed by John Michael Phillips.

Edition:

Widescreen version.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : A & E Home Video : Distributed by New Video, [2005]

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

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 whimsy. Ko-Ko (Eric Idle) is sentenced to death for the crime of flirting, but in a strange turn of events is instead named "Lord High Executioner." A delightful farce ensues as Ko-Ko can't behead anyone without first cutting off his own head. But by the second act, the Mikado demands an execution and Ko-Ko must delicately sing and dance his way around a messy situation involving the Mikado's son and his secret love Yum Yum.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Operas.

Music videos.

Film adaptations -- Great Britain.

Other Author:

Phillips, John Michael.

Idle, Eric.

Garrett, Lesley, 1955-

Bottone, Bonaventura.

Van Allan, Richard.