The Mikado 2025
Mackay Choral Society presents The Mikado
It’s a comic opera by Victorian duo Gilbert and Sullivan
Librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Sir Arthur Sullivan are best known for their fantastical operettas including Iolanthe, The Pirates of Penzance and, of course, The Mikado. The operetta, first performed in 1885, went on to be Gilbert and Sullivan’s longest running collaboration, with over 627 consecutive performances at their resident Savoy Theatre.
It’s a topsy-turvy tale set in Japan
Nanki-Poo (son of the Mikado), loves Yum-Yum, although she is betrothed to Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner of Titipu. When the Mikado (the Emperor) orders a beheading, Nanki-Poo agrees to lose his head so long as he can be married to Yum-Yum for a month. Katisha isn’t happy about this arrangement as she wants to marry Nanki-Poo herself! The Mikado arrives, believing his son to have been beheaded, and states the only way Nanki-Poo can come back to life is if Katisha marries someone else – Ko-Ko oblige!
It’s a comic opera by Victorian duo Gilbert and Sullivan
Librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Sir Arthur Sullivan are best known for their fantastical operettas including Iolanthe, The Pirates of Penzance and, of course, The Mikado. The operetta, first performed in 1885, went on to be Gilbert and Sullivan’s longest running collaboration, with over 627 consecutive performances at their resident Savoy Theatre.
It’s a topsy-turvy tale set in Japan
Nanki-Poo (son of the Mikado), loves Yum-Yum, although she is betrothed to Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner of Titipu. When the Mikado (the Emperor) orders a beheading, Nanki-Poo agrees to lose his head so long as he can be married to Yum-Yum for a month. Katisha isn’t happy about this arrangement as she wants to marry Nanki-Poo herself! The Mikado arrives, believing his son to have been beheaded, and states the only way Nanki-Poo can come back to life is if Katisha marries someone else – Ko-Ko oblige!
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CQCM Theatre
CQ University, University Drive, Ooralea QLD 4740
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