Nanki-Poo and Yum Yum
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A conductor’s guide to ‘The Mikado’
11. Nanki-Poo and Yum Yum
"Act 2. It is agreed that Nanki-Poo will marry Yum-Yum for a month and then be beheaded, but then it turns out that ‘when a married man is beheaded his wife is buried alive’. However - ‘an affidavit that you’ve been executed will do just as well’!" Photo: Tristram Kenton
