Arthur Sullivan
The Black Mikado
Movements
- Overture
Act I
- No 1, Men’s Chorus, “If you want to know who we are”
- no 2. “Gentlemen, I Pray You Tell Me” (Nanki-Poo, a Noble)
- no 2. “A Wand’ring Minstrel I” (Nanki-Poo, Chorus)
- no. 3, “Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man” (Pish-Tush and Men)
- no. 4, “Young Man, Despair” (Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush)
- no. 4a, “And Have I Journey’d for a Month” (Pooh-Bah and Nanki-Poo)
- no. 5, “Behold the Lord High Executioner” (Men)
- no. 5, “Taken From the County Jail” (Ko-Ko, Men)
- no. 5a “As someday it may happen” (Ko-Ko and Men)
- no. 6, “Comes a Train of Little Ladies” (Girls)
- no. 7. “Three little maids from school are we” (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, and Girls)
- no. 8, “So Please You Sir, We Much Regret” (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, and Girls)
- no. 9, “Were You Not to Ko-Ko Plighted” (Yum-Yum and Nanki-Pooh)
- no. 10, “I Am So Proud” (Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko and Pish-Tush)
- Act I Finale, no. 11, “With Aspect Stern and Gloomy Stride” (Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko, Nanki-Poo, Chorus)
- Act I Finale, no. 11, “The Threatened Cloud Has Passed Away” (Ensemble)
- Act I Finale, no. 11, “As in a Month You’ve Go to Die” (Pooh-Bah)
- Act I Finale, no. 11, “Your Revels Cease!” (Katisha, Chorus)
- Act I Finale, no. 11, “Oh Fool, That Fleest” (Katisha, Chorus)
- Act I Finale, no. 11, “Away, nor Prosecute Your Quest” (Pitti-Sing)
- Act I Finale, no. 11, “The Hour of Gladness” (Katisha)
- Act I Finale, no. 11, “Oh, Faithless One” (Katisha, Nanki-Poo, Yum-Yum)
- Act I Finale, no. 11, “O ni! Bikkuri shakkuri to!” (Katisha, Nanki-Poo, Yum-Yum, Chorus
- Act I Finale, no. 11, “Ye Torrents Roar!” (Katisha, Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, Ensemble)
Act II
- no. 12, “Braid the Raven Hair” (Pitti-Sing and Girls)
- no. 13. “The sun, whose rays are all ablaze” (Yum-Yum)
- no. 14, “Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day” (Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Pooh, and Pish-Tish)
- no. 15. “Here’s a how-de-do” (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko)
- no. 16 “Miya sama” (Chorus)
- no. 16 “From Every Kind of Man Obedience I Expect” (Mikado, Katisha, Chorus)
- no. 17, “A More Humane Mikado” (Mikado, Chorus)
- no. 18, “The Criminal Cried as He Dropped Him Down” (Ko-Ko, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Chorus)
- no. 19, “See How the Fates Their Gifts Allot” (Mikado, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko and Katisha)
- no. 20, “The Flowers That Bloom In the Spring” (Nanki-Pooh, Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, and Pooh-Bah)
- no. 21 “Alone, and Yet Alive” (Katisha
- no. 21 “Hearts Do Not Break” (Katisha)
- no. 22, “On a Tree by a River” (Ko-Ko)
- no. 23. “There is beauty in the bellow of the blast” (Katisha and Ko-Ko)
- no. 24. Finale “For He’s Gone and Married Yum-Yum” (Ensemble)
- no. 24. Finale “The Threatened Cloud Has Passed Away” (Ensemble)
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