Here’s everything you need to know about ENO’s production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado.

It’s a comic opera by Victorian duo Gilbert and Sullivan

Librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Sir Arthur Sullivan are best known for their fantastical operettas including HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and, of course, The Mikado.

The operetta, first performed in 1885, went on to be Gilbert and Sullivan’s longest running collaboration, with over 627 consecutive performances at their resident Savoy Theatre in London.