With Sean Rafferty. As the D'Oyly
Carte Opera Company brings a new production of Gilbert and Sullivan's
Mikado to the South Bank in London, Sean Rafferty finds out what it is about this opera that makes it such an enduring success. Music includes works by Bach and Brahms, and, at about 5.30, Jean-Bernard Pommier performing the Piano Concerto by Poulenc with the City of London
Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox. Producer Helen Garrison