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Title:
The Mikado [DVD video]
Author:
Publication Date:
1999
Publication Information:
[S.l.] : Morningstar Entertainment Inc. and Acorn Media Publishing, Inc. : distributed exclusively in Canada by Morningstar Entertainment Inc. and CBC Home Video, c1999.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (150 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781569383469
9781569383452
Abstract:
Described by critics as "scintillating", "exquisite", and "breathtaking", this version of the famous comic opera was a blockbuster hit at the world-renowned Stratford Festival. Cloaked in the guise of a Japanese musical drama, The Mikado is a spoof of Victorian English society. Centered on Ko-Ko (Eric Donkin), 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 (Gidon Saks) has instructed him to produce a head - or forfeit his own!
General Note:
Title from disc surface.
At head of title: The Stratford Festival presents.
Program content : The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1983.
Special features: Chapter indexing of songs ; two CBC News documentaries about the production ; text alterations - original and revised for those songs which were updated for this production ; biographies of Gilbert & Sullivan ; program notes, glossary and photographs of historic relevance ; interactive menus ; sketches of Our town; Stratford, Ontario video.
Performers:
Marie Baron as Yum-Yum, Eric Donkin as Ko-Ko, Henry Ingram as Nanki-Poo, Gidon Saks as the Emperor and Richard McMillan as Poo-Bah.
Language:
English
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Audience:
Canadian Home Video rating: E.
