The Mikado (Criterion Collection)

Kenny Baker, Martyn Green. A first-rate cast drawn from the celebrated D’Oyly Carte Opera Company teams up with the London Symphony Orchestra for the lavish Hollywood adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera and the first of their complete works ever adapted for the screen. Bonus features include new video interviews with Topsy Turvy director Mike Leigh and Mikado scholars Josephine Lee and Ralph MacPhail Jr., a short silent film promoting the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company’s 1926 stage performance of The Hot Mikado, a booklet featuring a new essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien, and more. 1939/color/91 min/NR/fullscreen.