Features

Introduction to the opera by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Gilbert & Sullivan profile; Song index; Companion booklet featuring the Mikado libretto

Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Introduction: Fairbanks [2:53]
2. Overture and Credits [1:24]
3. If You Want to Know Who We Are, We Are the Gentlemen of Japan (Chorus of Nobles) [2:55]
4. A Wandering Minstrel I (Song: Nanki-Poo and Chorus) [4:39]
5. Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man (Song: Pish-Tush and Chorus) [4:46]
6. Young Man, Despair, Likewise Go To, Yum-Yum the Fair You Must Not Woo (Song: Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo, and Pish-Tush) [3:11]
7. Behold the Lord High Executioner! (Chorus of Nobles) [:54]
8. Taken From the County Jail (Solo: Ko-Ko) [2:07]
9. I've Got a Little List (Song: Ko-Ko and Chorus) [4:56]
10. Comes a Train of Little Ladies (Chorus of Girls) [2:11]
11. Three Little Maids From School Are We (Trio: Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, and Pitti-Sing) [3:37]
12. So Pardon Us! (Quartet: Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, and Pooh-Bah) [4:41]
13. Were You Not to Ko-Ko Plighted (Duet: Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo) [5:06]
14. I Am So Proud (Trio: Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah, and Pish-Tush) [6:25]
15. With Aspect Stern and Gloomy Stride (Finale Act One) [5:43]
16. Oh Fool, That Fleest My Hallowed Joys! (Song: Katisha) [7:27]
17. Entr'acte: Fairbanks [:50]
18. Braid the Raven Hair (Solo: Pitti-Sing and Chorus of Girls) [1:48]
19. Sit With Downcast Eye (Solo: Pitti-Sing) [2:22]
20. The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze (Song: Yum-Yum) [4:16]
21. Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day (Madrigal: Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Poo, and Pish-Tush) [6:02]
22. Here's a How-De-Do! If I Marry You (Trio: Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, and Ko-Ko) [5:51]
23. I'm the Emperor of Japan (Duet: Mikado and Katisha) [1:36]
24. A More Humane Mikado Never Did in Japan Exist (Song: Mikado and Chorus) [4:05]
25. The Criminal Cried, as He Dropped Him Down (Trio: Ko-Ko, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, and Chorus) [6:10]
26. See How the Fates Their Gifts Allot, for A Is Happy... B Is Not (Glee: Pitti-Sing, Katisha, Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah, and Mikado) [3:27]
27. The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring (Duet: Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko) [2:02]
28. Hearts Do Not Break! They Sting and Ache (Song: Katisha) [3:57]
29. Oh, Willow, Tit Willow, Tit Willow! (Song: Ko-Ko) [3:04]
30. There Is Beauty in Extreme Old Age (Duet: Katisha and Ko-Ko) [4:24]
31. For He's Gone and Married Yum-Yum (Finale) [3:20]