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WEB OPERA
Written by W. S. Gilbert
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Featuring
Almost Two Hours of Music
andAll of the Lyrics and Dialogue
Illustrated with photographs of the original production.
The MIDI files for this opera were sequenced by Paul Howarth. If you would like to have them all to play at any time, you can download them in a zipped file (139KB).
The Karaoke files are also available for download as a single zipped file (202KB) .
- Rudolph (The Grand Duke of Pfennig Hlabpfennig)
- Ernest Dummkopf (A Theatrical Manager)
- Ludwig (His Leading Commedian )
- Dr. Tannhäuser (A Notary )
- The Prince of Monte Carlo
- Viscount Mentone
- Ben Hashbaz (A Costumier )
- Herald
- The Princess of Monte Carlo (Betrothed to Rudolph)
- The Baroness von Krakenfeldt (Betrothed to Rudolph)
- Julia Jellicoe (an English Comédienne)
- Lisa (A Soubrette)
- Members of Ernest Dummkopf's Company:
- Olga
- Gretchen
- Bertha
- Elsa
- Martha
Chamberlains, Nobles, Actors, Actresses, &c.
ACT I. — Public Square of Speisesall..
ACT II. — The Grand Ducal Palace .
Time — 1750.
First produced at the Savoy Theatre on 7 March, 1896.
| Overture |
ACT I
| No. 1 | Chorus with solos | "Won't it be a pretty wedding?" |
| No. 1a | Duet (Lisa & Ludwig) | "Pretty Lisa, fair and tasty" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 2 | Solo (Ludwig) with Chorus | "By the mystic regulation" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 3 | Song (Ernest) with Chorus | "Were I a king in very truth" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 4 | Song & Duet (Julia & Ernest) | "How would I play this part..." |
| No. 5 | Chorus & Song (Ludwig) | "My goodness me! what shall I do?... Ten minutes since I met a chap" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 6 | Song (Notary) | "About a century since" |
| Dialogue | ||
| Nos. 7 & 8 |
Quintet | "Strange the views some peole hold... Now take a card, and gaily sing" |
| No. 9 | Entrance of Chamberlains Song (Rudolph) |
"The good Grand Duke... A pattern to professors of monarchical autonomy" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 10 | Duet (Baroness & Rudolph) | "As o'er our penny roll we sing" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 11 | Song (Rudolph) | "When you find you're a broken-down critter" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 12 | Finale, Act I | "Come hither, all you people" |
ACT II
| No. 13 | Chorus | "As before you we defile" |
| No. 14 | Recit. & Song (Ludwig & Chorus) |
"Your loyalty our Ducal heart-strings touches... At the outset I may mention" |
| No. 15 | Recit. (Ludwig) & Song (Lisa) |
"Yes, Ludwig and Julia are mated... Take care of him — he's much too good to live" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 16 | Duet (Julia & Ludwig) | "Now Julia, come, consider it from" |
| No. 17 | Chorus with Solos | "Your Highness, there's a party at the door" |
| Dialogue | ||
| Nos. |
Song (Baroness & Chorus) | "Now away to the wedding we go" |
| 18 & 19 | Recit & Solo (Julia) | "So ends my dream... Broken ev'ry promise plighted" |
| Dialogue | ||
| Nos. | Duet (Julia & Ernest) | "If the light of love's lingering ember" |
| 20 & 21 | Song (Baroness) & Chorus | "Come, bumpers — aye, ever so many" |
Nos. |
Solo (Ludwig) & Chorus | "Why, who is this approaching?" |
| Song (Herald) & Chorus | "The Prince of Monte Carlo " | |
| Recit. (Ludwig) | "His Highness we know not" | |
| No. 25 | Song (Prince) | "We're rigged out in magnificent array " |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 26 | Dance | |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 27 | Song (Prince) & Chorus | "Take my advice — when deep in debt" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 28 | Chorus & Song (Rudolph) | "Hurrah! Now away to the wedding... Well, you're a pretty kind of fellow" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 29 | Finale, Act II | "Happy couples, lightly treading" |
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