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FAIRIES

THE FAIRY ETHIAS MR. CLAUDE FLEMMING
THE FAIRY PHYLLON MR. LEO SHEFFIELD
SELENE (The Fairy Queen) MISS NANCY MCINTOSH
DARINE MISS MAIDIE HOPE
ZAYDA MISS JESSIE ROSE
LOCRINE MISS ETHEL MORRISON
ZARA MISS MABEL BURNEDGE
CORA MISS RITA OTWAY
LILA MISS RUBY GREY
NEODIE MISS ALICE COX
FLETA MISS MARJORIE DAWES
CHLORIS MISS GLADYS LANCASTER
MAIA MISS MIRIAM LYCETT
CLYNTIE MISS MABEL AGNEW
LUTIN (A Serving Fairy) MR. C. HERBERT WORKMAN

MORTALS

SIR ETHIAS (Two Hunnish Knights) MR. CLAUDE FLEMMING
SIR PHYLLON MR. LEO SHEFFIELD
LUTIN (Sir Ethias's Henchman) MR. C. HERBERT WORKMAN

Dresses designed by MR. PERCY ANDERSON and executed by MISS FISHER
and MR. SIMMONS.

Double-haqnded Sword Combat arranged by M. BERTRAND.

Dances arranged by MR. JOHN D'AUBAN.

SCENE. — Fairy Land, on the upper side of a cloud. (Harker)

NOTE: The cast list above is as it appears in the published vocal score. It differs from that found in the programme of 3 January 1910.


Web OPera

ACT I

NO.      
1.   INTRODUCTION & CHORUS (with Solo,
Darine
)
"Oh world below! Oh, wicked world!"
    «Dialogue»  
2.   CHORUS (with Solos, Darine, Zayda,
Fleta and Lochrine
)
"Hail, Lutin, wondrous trav'ller!"
3.   RECIT. & SONG (Lutin) WITH CHORUS "What! tell you all? Not so!"
    «Dialogue»  
4.   SONG (Selene) "With all the misery, with all the
shame"
    «Dialogue»  
5.   DUET (Darine & Zayda) & CHORUS "Man is a being, all accuse of every
vice detestable"
    «Dialogue»  
6.   SCENA (Selene) & CHORUS "And now to summon them"
7.   RECIT. & DUET (Sir Ethias, Sir
Phyllon
& Chorus)
"By god and man, who brought us
here, and how?"
    «Dialogue»  
8.   SONG (Selene) & CHORUS "Poor purblind, wayward youths"
9.   COUPLETS (Selene, Darine, Sir
Ethias, Sir Phyllon & Chorus
)
"When homage to his Queen a
subject shows"
    «Dialogue»  
10.   FINALE ACT I "The warrior girt in shining might"

ACT II

11.   INTRODUCTION & OPENING CHORUS "For many an hour, within her bower"
    «Dialogue»  
12.   SONG (Zayda) & CHORUS "I never profess to make a guess"
    «Dialogue»  
    SONG (Selene) "O Love, that rulest in our land"
    «Dialogue»  
13.   DUET (Selene & Sir Ethias) "Thy features are fair and seemly"
    «Dialogue»  
14.   DUET (Selene & Sir Ethias) "When a knight loves a ladye"
    «Dialogue»  
15.   DUET (Darine & Sir Phyllon ) "But dost thou hear? I love thee not"
    «Dialogue»  
16.   SCENA (Lutin) & CHORUS "Help! help! help! Whatever has
become of me?"
    «Dialogue»  
17.   SONG (Lutin) & CHORUS "Suppose you take, with open mind,
twelve handsome men"
    «Dialogue»  
18.   SONG (Lutin) & CHORUS "In yonder world, which devils strew"
    «Dialogue»  
19.   SONG (Lutin) & CHORUS "When husband supposes his wife is a jade"
20.   SONG (Darine) "Triumphant I! here is the charm"
    «Dialogue»  
21.   SCENA "Away, away, thou art no Queen of
ours!
    «Dialogue»  
22.   SONG (Selene) "Hark-ye, Sir Knight; I'll yield my fairy state"
    «Dialogue»  
23.   MELODRAME  
24.   FINALE ACT II "Pure as the air, Sweet as morning
dew"

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