Capitol City Opera Company to Present THE MIKADO, 5/20-22

Capitol City Opera Company (CCOC) will present Gilbert and Sullivan's light-hearted comic operetta The Mikado on Friday, May 20 at 8:00p.m., Saturday, May 21 at 8:00p.m., and Sunday, May 22 at 3:00p.m. at Conant Performing Arts Center at Oglethorpe University. Tickets are available online at CCITYOPERA.org.

Characterized by clever wordplay, memorable tunes, and endearing characters, this contemporary staging of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, The Mikado, features clever plot twists, anime characters, iPhones, and unexpected use of set design.

As with many of Gilbert and Sullivan's productions, the show satirizes aspects of Victorian Britain's politics and aristocracy. In The Mikado, the duo has cloaked these criticisms behind a story set in Japan.

Nanki-Poo, the son of the Japanese Emperor (The Mikado) has run away to marry the beautiful Yum-Yum. Yum-Yum is the ward of Ko-Ko, the lord high executioner, and has become engaged to him against her will.

In the meantime, Ko-Ko realizes he is too soft-hearted to be an executioner. His solution is to trade a month of marriage to Yum-Yum for Nanki-Poo's life, but of course, the plan backfires and Ko-Ko finds himself subject to capital punishment for allegedly killing the Mikado's son.

But the tangled web unravels, and everyone lives happily ever after.

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