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The Two Roses is a comic opera with libretto, based on She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, by Stanislaus Stange and score by Ludwig Engländer. It opened at the Broadway Theatre, New York on 21 November 1904 where it closed after just 29 performances.

Dramatis Personæ

POLLY PRIMROSE
ALICE TUPPER
ANNIE PARSONS
BETTY BROWN
GILES MUNSON
PETER DODGE
JOHN JUGGINS
GEOFFREY DAVIS
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Ada Meade
Grace Spencer
Ila Niles
Bertha Holly
James Beall
Roy Penalton
Otto Wedemyer
Frank Boyle
SUSAN KNIGHT   (maid to Rose Decourcelles) Ida Hawley
DR. THOMAS WELL   (a young physician) M. W. Whitney, Jr.
LADY JANE   (friend of Rose Decourcelles) Louise Le Baron
FERDINAND DAY   (Squire Oldfield's step-son) Louis Harrison
MRS. OLDFIELD   (Ferdinand's mother) Josephine Bartlett
ANDREW OLDFIELD   (Squire of Cobham Manor) Clarence Handyside
PHILIP MERIVALE   (Rose Decourcelles' suitor) Roland Cunningham
ROSE DECOURCELLES   Fritzi Scheff
  (Squire Oldfield's ward, at one time known as Rose Marie)  

MIDI Files

ACT I   -   Farmer Knight's Apple Orchard.

ACT II   -   Squire Oldfield's House.

MIDI Files


External Link
Vocal Score at Musopen

American Musical Theatre

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