You have to be fairly well disposed to G & S to enjoy this, and it may be a tad long for newcomers.
Jim Broadbent is brilliant as the irascible Gilbert as is Cordunner as the high living Sullivan.
You get big slabs of the Mikado in particular, as the conception, writing and staging of it runs the plot here.
If there is a criticism it is that it has longeurs sometimes (the bit with Gilbert's father seems bizarre) and perhaps 20 minutes could have been chopped with no ill effect.
Perhaps it is a mark either of the stability of the British state or perhaps more likely British taste that 'The Mikado' staged by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company was still being performed in a brilliant new production at the Savoy Theatre in London as of January 2001.
Jim Broadbent is brilliant as the irascible Gilbert as is Cordunner as the high living Sullivan.
You get big slabs of the Mikado in particular, as the conception, writing and staging of it runs the plot here.
If there is a criticism it is that it has longeurs sometimes (the bit with Gilbert's father seems bizarre) and perhaps 20 minutes could have been chopped with no ill effect.
Perhaps it is a mark either of the stability of the British state or perhaps more likely British taste that 'The Mikado' staged by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company was still being performed in a brilliant new production at the Savoy Theatre in London as of January 2001.