Episode 3 of 4

Restoration of Solo

When: 1885
Where: London
Part of: Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado opens at the Savoy Theatre

Company members and others who witnessed the dress rehearsal begged Gilbert and Sullivan to restore a cut solo.

Gilbert and Sullivan had decided to cut the only solo sung by the opera's title character, who appears only in Act II and was played by Savoy veteran Richard Temple. Members of the company and others who had witnessed the dress rehearsal came to them in a body and begged them to restore the excised number.

Sources

The Mikado Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-08

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