Dolly Varden is a comic opera with music by Julian Edwards and lyrics by Stanislaus Stangé. It opened at the Herald Square Theatre, New York, on 27 January 1902 and then at the Grand Opera House from 29 December 1902.

Dramatis Personæ

MIDI Files

• Prelude

ACT I   -   London, 1730.

• No. 1 - Introduction - Lord Gayspark and Girls - "Swing her high and swing her low, swing my lady to and fro..."
• No. 2 - Duett - Lucette, Alice and Female Chorus - "When the Spring is laughing and smiling on the earth..."
• No. 3 - Song - Harcourt and Chorus - "The sailor's a Lothario, his heart is all embracing..."
• No. 4 - Song - Letitia - "For wealth what cares the heart of youth, 'tis love that most enriches..."
• No. 5 - Song - Dick - "In me behold a lover whose sweetheart's under cover, for days I've followed her thro' ev'ry street..."
• No. 6 - Trio - Dolly, Dick and Fairfax - "What an awful, awful pity that a maiden young and pretty..."
• No. 7 - Song - Dolly and Female Chorus - "I've lived my life 'mid cow and hens.  I've dearly loved two little wrens..."
• No. 8 - Duett - Dick and Dolly - "Love means the birth of a strange new joy, a sad sweet pain is its sole alloy..."
• No. 9 - Song - Fairfax - "I have wandered far and near, but the place I hold most dear is a little lane that leads down..."
• No. 10 - Duett - Letitia and Harcourt - "When a maiden and her lover for the first time are alone..."
• No. 11 - Song - Dolly and Chorus - "A Cannibal maid one wintry morn stood by the raging sea..."
• No. 12 - Finale Act I - "He must be punished! ... I must be punished? ... Yes, and most severely! ..."

ACT II

• No. 13 - Quartet - Letitia, Alice, Marlow and Cragsby - "We long to love with a love that loves, the love that loves for ever..."
• No. 14 - Song - Harcourt and Chorus - "There are signs and indications of a woman's inclinations..."
• No. 15 - Song - Letitia and Chorus - "Brave and true the army, but none of them for me.  I prefer the navy..."
• No. 16 - Quartette - Letitia, Dolly, Lucette and Alice - "For man we form this gracious, graceful pose..."
• No. 17 - Song - Dolly - "Once there was a little jay-bird, a rather ancient jay-bird who lived on the top of a tree..."
• No. 18 - Ensemble - Principals and Chorus - "Fair maid, I thank you for your thought, a gentle deed with kindness fraught..."
• No. 19 - Song - Dick - "There's one thing worth the having here, 'twas sent down from the skies..."
• No. 20 - Song - Fairfax and Male Chorus - "No song I sing of golden ring, no lay of ladies fair..."
• No. 21 - Octett - Letitia, Dolly, Lucette, Alice, Harcourt, Disk, Marlow and Cragsby - "Behold each timid bride..."
• No. 22 - Finale Act II - "Oh! I'm no longer Dolly Varden;  Oh! you darling, beg your pardon, that kiss was simply great..."

MIDI Files

Souvenir Cover	Lulu Glaser as Dolly Varden

External Link

Vocal Score at IMSLP

American Musical Theatre

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