{"id":2685,"date":"2015-12-07T11:24:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T11:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2015-12-07T11:24:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T11:24:48","slug":"the-mikado-celebrates-200-performances-at-english-national-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=2685","title":{"rendered":"The Mikado celebrates 200 performances at English National Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>On Sunday 6 December,\u00a0British mezzo-soprano\u00a0<strong>Dame Felicity Palmer<\/strong>\u00a0presented director\u00a0<strong>Jonathan Miller\u00a0<\/strong>and the cast and chorus of<em>The Mikado<\/em>\u00a0with a cake\u00a0to celebrate the 200<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0performance of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic\u00a0at the London Coliseum.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ENO-The-Mikado-200th-performance-Sir-Jonathan-Miller-with-cast-2-c-Richard-Hubert-Smith.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2686\" alt=\"ENO The Mikado - 200th performance - Sir Jonathan Miller with cast 2 (c) Richard Hubert Smith\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ENO-The-Mikado-200th-performance-Sir-Jonathan-Miller-with-cast-2-c-Richard-Hubert-Smith.jpg\" width=\"4252\" height=\"2845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ENO-The-Mikado-200th-performance-Sir-Jonathan-Miller-with-cast-2-c-Richard-Hubert-Smith.jpg 4252w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ENO-The-Mikado-200th-performance-Sir-Jonathan-Miller-with-cast-2-c-Richard-Hubert-Smith-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ENO-The-Mikado-200th-performance-Sir-Jonathan-Miller-with-cast-2-c-Richard-Hubert-Smith-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ENO-The-Mikado-200th-performance-Sir-Jonathan-Miller-with-cast-2-c-Richard-Hubert-Smith-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4252px) 100vw, 4252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This production first premiered for English National Opera on 21 September 1986 and has delighted audiences for almost 30 years. During this time, it\u00a0has played to over 400,000 audience members and has been broadcast on ITV (in 1987) and screened live to cinemas across the UK and internationally (3 December 2015).<\/p>\n<p>Original cast members include: Eric Idle playing Ko Ko, the Lord High Executioner, Lesley Garret, Jean Rigby and Susan Bullock as\u00a0Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing and Peep-Bo, Dame Felicity Palmer as Katisha and the late Richard Angas as the Mikado.<\/p>\n<p>Miller\u2019s \u2018glorious production of Gilbert and Sullivan\u2019s best comic opera\u2019 (Daily Express) has become a true audience favourite and is the perfect Christmas treat for all the family. Its Marx Brother\u2019s inspired song-and-dance take on Gilbert &amp; Sullivan has long been a hit with theatre-goers of all ages. Full of high-kicking chorus lines, satirical touches and a wonderfully elegant score it tells the tale of Nanki-Poo and his love for Yum Yum. There\u2019s just one snag. She\u2019s betrothed to Ko-Ko, the new Lord High Executioner. And he needs someone to execute otherwise it\u2019s his own head on the block. Perhaps Ko-Ko and Nanki-Poo can come to some arrangement, without anyone losing their head?<\/p>\n<p><em>The Mikado\u00a0<\/em>runs until 6 February 2016\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eno.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.eno.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>photos(c) ENO\/Richard Hubert Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 6 December,\u00a0British mezzo-soprano\u00a0Dame Felicity Palmer\u00a0presented director\u00a0Jonathan Miller\u00a0and the cast and chorus ofThe Mikado\u00a0with a cake\u00a0to celebrate the 200th\u00a0performance of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic\u00a0at the London Coliseum. This production first premiered for English National Opera on 21 September &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=2685\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}