The Mikado: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Mikado by W. S. Gilbert: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 2 original MP3 tracks, 1:33:16 running time and a link to listen.
The Mikado, credited to W. S. Gilbert, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Mikado by W. S. Gilbert. Read in English by a full cast. In the town of Titipu, flirting is punishable by death on the command of the Mikado himself! But what happens when the Lord High Executioner is himself condemned to die? And what secret does the wandering minstrel Nanki-Poo hide, that the Mikado and his entire entourage come to witness his execution? "The Mikado" premiered in 1885, when it broke all records for the longest-running musical. It remains arguably the most popular of the Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. Occasionally described as "English ladies with knitting needles in their hair", Gilbert disguised his criticism of British politics by the (ostensibly) Japanese setting. The universal themes of love and death have kept this opera in constant production for over 125 years. - Summary by Beth Thomas
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Mikado
- Author credits: W. S. Gilbert
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 2
- Listed recording duration: 1:33:16
Catalogue topics
- play
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- operetta
- light opera
- savoy opera
Track guide
- 01 - Act 1 (final edited version) — 46:03
- 02 - Act 2 (final edited version) — 47:13
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