Arthur Sullivan: The Mikado: Opera: Score

Par GILBERT WILLIAM SCHWENCK / SULLIVAN ARTHUR. The Mikado , or The Town of Titipu , is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Available here is the Vocal Score for the Opera. / Niveau : Assez Facile / TV, Film, Comédie musicale / Recueil / Chant et Piano

The tale of Nanki-Poo and his passion for Yum-Yum has charmed audiences since its 1885 debut with graceful well-loved melodies such as 'Three little maids from school are we ' 'The flowers that bloom in the spring tra-la ' and many others. Now available in a newly edited newly engraved full-score publication based on Sullivan's autograph and the first edition of the full score this new performing edition by Ephraim Jones and Carl Simpson corrects many errors and incorporates Gilbert's later libretto changes..Dover Original.

After creating eight works for the stage Gilbert and Sullivan outdid themselves with a macabre farce set in the Far East. It is the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera and arguably the most popular opera ever written. This may have had something to do with the vogue for all things Japanese at the time but it is also due to the universal appeal of the characters - every culture has a bribe-hungry Pooh-Bah giggling schoolgirls and a pathetic elderly Katisha. This edition of the Chorus part includes all cues and a synopsis. It is edited by Bryceson Treharne.

As you read this somewhere in the English-speaking world a production of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta is being rehearsed or presented. It may be taking place in an elementary secondary or high school; a university; an amateurmusical theater group; a summer-stock ensemble; a professional light-opera company. The musical accompaniment may consist of a piano or two - perhaps plus a few other instruments - or a full orchestra. Audiences be theyfirst-time listeners or dyed-in-the wool G&S fanatics will be captivated by the scintillating melodies and effervescent lyrics of those highly unlikely collaborators: Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan and Sir William Schwenck GIlbert.Incredibly despite the seemingly endless popularity of these works which have been published staged recorded broadcast televised and cinematized over the years since their first performances by the D’Oyly Carte Opera inLondon in the 1870s and 1880s there has never been an edition which permitted the guitar-playing masses to enjoy these Victorian gems. Until now. Here for the first time are 52 G&S favorites (or if you will favourites) drawnfrom five of their most popular operettas: H.M.S. Pinafore The Pirates of Penzance Patience Iolanthe The Mikado. arranged with guitar chords in guitar-friendly keys! The very model of a modern music manuscript! Allselections include melody lyrics and guitar chords.