The main thing I've always loved in England since I lived there for a decade in the 70's is the magical quality of the light. In all my times returning there for visits to Geoffrey's family from when our daughter was a toddler until his mum's death, I've been enchanted repeatedly by that light, how it falls and glows through the softly mossy brilliant greens of the landscape and down the city ivy in London. I find the country very Peter Pan and Midsummer Night's Dream...Pre-Raphaelite.
Long shadows, elongated shadows. Everyone needs a shadow says Carl Jung!
When I returned from Windsor in December, I told Peter about the light. I am so pleased he caught that in the luminescent set. You see, I'm in love with the whole thing already.
Now we just need the people and the text! The main ingredients.
I will ask Brenda Van der Weil to email you a Falstaff costume rendering. I know she is working on colors this weekend. His headpiece is kind of comic opera right now with realistic horns.
Some ideas Brenda sent to me for the final scene were abstracted Art Nouveau masks and also children with plump rose wreaths on their heads -- Isadora Duncan look -- somewhere in here is the answer.
I checked on Gilbert and Sullivan performances in the early 1900's -- running strong into the 1920's!
Yours,
Diana

Links in the general area of music and movement:

Isadora:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKtQWU2ifOs

Below not the Mikado but puts me in mind of two little maids from school
Sumi Jo & Ah-Kyung Lee - Delibes - Lakme - Flower Duet

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4MmatVblDk&feature=youtube_gdata_player