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Like so many of Sullivan's alto bags, Katisha seems doomed to await only her demise, when it appears that Graeme Ewer as Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, can share a taste for 'the falling of a flight of thunderbolts' and agrees that she is sufficiently decayed for marriage. In Yum-Yum the Mikado now has a different daughter-in-law and heads have been lost only figuratively. Chorus and orchestra under Andrew Greene rollick their way through Sullivan's enchanting score, and once again Gilbert's humour, with dashes of contemporary patter, proves the indestructability of the best Savoy operas even if the classic 'business' is long forgotten.