DVD
The Mikado
Call Number
- DVD MUSICAL (CEN)
Edition
DVD special ed.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Kenny Baker, Martyn Green, Sydney Granville, John Barclay, Gregory Stroud, Jean Colin, Constance Willis, Elizabeth Paynter, Kathleen Naylor ; The London Symphony Orchestra ; conductor, Geoffrey Toye ; chorus, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
The legendary Gilbert and Sullivan troupe, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, joined forces with Hollywood for this 1939 Technicolor version of the beloved comic opera--the first complete work by the famed duo to be adapted for the screen. Directed by musician and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Victor Schertzinger, it is a lavish cinematic retelling of the British political satire set in exotic Japan.
Notes
Title from container.
Based upon the opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan ; by arrangement with Rupert D'Oyly Carte.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1939.
Special features: new video interviews with "Topsy-Turvy" director Mike Leigh and "Mikado" scholars Josephine Lee and Ralph MacPhail, Jr. ; short silent film promoting the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's 1926 stage performace of "The Mikado" ; deleted scene with Ko-Ko's "I've got a little list" song ; excerpts from 1939 radio broadcasts of the stage productions "The swing Mikado" and "The hot Mikado."