Mikado
I am guessing you mean 'The Mikado' by Gilbert and Sullivan. This is a comic opera and their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations. It opened on 14th March 1885. By setting the opera in Japan Gilbert was able to satirize British politics and institutions more freely by disguising them as Japanese.
Gilbert & Sullivan
Patience.
It was about a ship named "HMS Pinafore" in the navy.
The pirates of Penzance. Very ribald and funny opera. Made fun of the British way of conducting the navy.
In "The Pirates of Penzance" the Major General sings about "that infernal nonsense, Pinafore," referring to "H.M.S. Pinafore."
Trial by Jury.
I am guessing you mean 'The Mikado' by Gilbert and Sullivan. This is a comic opera and their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations. It opened on 14th March 1885. By setting the opera in Japan Gilbert was able to satirize British politics and institutions more freely by disguising them as Japanese.
The Savoy operas were the original name for the operas of Sir Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert, aka Gilbert and Sullivan.
Gilbert & Sullivan
patience
Patience.
It was about a ship named "HMS Pinafore" in the navy.
The Yeomen of the Guard.
The pirates of Penzance. Very ribald and funny opera. Made fun of the British way of conducting the navy.
The Major-General's Song is a patter song from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance.
You could try the following - The annotated Gilbert and Sullivan [Penguin Books] Gilbert and Sullivan - an assessment by Audrey Williamson. [Marion Boyars Ltd] You will find the link below useful.