The Mikado

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The Mikado (1885) by W. S. Gilbert
or, The Town of Titipu

Libretto by W. S. Gilbert; music by Arthur Sullivan. First produced at the Savoy Theatre, London, on March 14, 1885.— Excerpted from The Mikado on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

[edit] Act I

1. If you want to know who we are (Nanki-Poo and Men)
2. A Wand'ring Minstrel I (Nanki-Poo and Men)
3. Our Great Mikado, virtuous man (Pish-Tush and Men)
4. Young Man Despair (Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush)
5. Behold the Lord High Executioner (Ko-Ko and Men)
5a. As some day it may happen (Ko-Ko and Men)
6. Comes a train of little ladies (Girls)
7. Three little maids from school are we (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, and Girls)
8. So please you, Sir, we much regret (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, and Girls)
9. Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted (Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo)
10. I am so proud (Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko and Pish-Tush)
11. With aspect stern and gloomy stride (Ensemble)

12. Braid the raven hair (Pitti-Sing and Girls)
13. The sun whose rays are all ablaze (Yum-Yum)
14. Brightly dawns our wedding day (Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush)
15. Here's a how-de-do (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko)
16. Mi-ya Sa-ma (Mikado, Katisha, Girls and Men)
17. A more humane Mikado (Mikado, Girls and Men)
18. The criminal cried as he dropped him down (Ko-ko, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Girls and Men)
19. See how the Fates their gifts allot (Mikado, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko and Katisha)
20. The flowers that bloom in the spring (Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, and Pooh-Bah)
21. Alone, and yet alive (Katisha)
22. Willow, tit-willow (Ko-Ko)
23. There is beauty in the bellow of the blast (Katisha and Ko-Ko)
24. For he's gone and married Yum-Yum (Ensemble)

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.