Opera chaos behind the curtain — and Eric Idle's just vibing in the corner.
A chance to see director Jonathan Miller at work on his acclaimed staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous comic opera.
Direction
Miller's meticulous, slightly unhinged staging decisions.
Production
Gloriously 80s BBC documentary aesthetic.
Director
John Michael Phillips
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Miller's production famously moved the setting from Japan to a 1920s English seaside hotel, which some critics called genius and others called colonialism-blind.
This captures the ENO at its 1980s peak, when state-funded British arts programming actually got budgets for niche documentaries like this.
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