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Paperback – 246 x 210 mm – 128 pages

Over 230 full-colour photographs

ISBN 9781843681809

‘The audience should feel as they come out of this show that they have over-eaten an enormous cream meringue.’ This was how Jonathan Miller described his hopes to the cast in 1986, as the rehearsals for The Mikado were coming to an end.

Thirty-three years later, the Miller Mikado is still selling out the Coliseum. In this book, Richard Suart, who has played Ko-Ko for over 150 performances, celebrates Miller’s iconic production, the success of which has more than realised his hopes. Suart describes how it was put together – during yet another period of financial crisis for English National Opera – and praises some of those gifted people whose talents helped make this show such a triumph, from the creative team to the Company Principals the chorus and dancers, each of their contributions magnificent and memorable.

Illustrated with over 230 photographs, many reproduced here for the first time