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WEB OPERA
All the music, lyrics and dialogue
Illustrated with historic photographs of D'Oyly Carte Opera Company productions
Individual MIDI and Karaoke files can be accessed from the pages for the relevant number.
Alternatively, complete sets can be downloaded as Zip files:
MIDI Files [138 KB] Karaoke Files [163 KB]
Alternatively, complete sets can be downloaded as Zip files:
MIDI Files [138 KB] Karaoke Files [163 KB]
| OVERTURE |
ACT I
| No. 1 | Opening Chorus with Solos | "Tripping hither, tripping thither" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 2 | Invocation | "Iolanthe! From thy dark exile thou art summoned" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 3 | Entrance of Strephon | "Good morrow, good mother!" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 4 | Exit of Fairies | "Fare thee well, attractive stranger" |
| No. 4a | Entrance of Phyllis | "Good morrow, good lover!" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 5 | Duet (Phyllis & Strephon) | "None shall part us from each other" |
| No. 6 | Entrance & March of Peers | "Loudly let the trumpet bray" |
| Nos. 6a & 7 |
Entrance of the Lord Chancellor Song (Lord Chancellor & Chorus) |
"The Law is the true embodiment" |
| Dialogue | ||
| Nos. 8-11 |
Ensemble | "My well-loved Lord and guardian dear... Nay tempt me not... Spurn not the nobly born... My Lords, it may not be!" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 12 | Song (Lord Chancellor) | "When I went to the bar" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 13 | Finale, Act I | "When darkly looms the day" |
ACT II
| No. 14 | Song (Private Willis) | "When all night long a chap remains" |
| No. 15 | Chorus of Fairies & Peers | "Strephon's a member of Parliament" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 16 | Song (Lord Mountararat & Chorus) | "When Britain really ruled the waves" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 17 | Duet (Leila & Celia with Fairies) | "In vain to us you plead" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 18 | Song (Fairy Queen & Chorus) | "Oh, foolish fay" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 19 | Quartet ( Phyllis, Lords Mountararat & Tolloller, Private Willis) | "Though p'r'aps I may incur your blame" |
| No. 20 | Recit. & Song (Lord Chancellor) | "Love, unrequited... When you're lying awake" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 21 | Trio (Lord Chancellor, Lords Mountararat & Tolloller) |
"If you go in" |
| No. 21a | Recit. & Song (Strephon) | "My Bill has now been read a second time... Fold your flapping wings" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 22 | Duet (Phyllis & Strephon) | "If we're weak enough to tarry" |
| Dialogue | ||
| Nos. 23 & 24 |
Recit. & Ballad (Iolanthe) Recit. (Iolanthe, Chancellor, Queen & Faries) |
"My Lord, a suppliant at your feet... He loves!... It may not be" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 25 | Finale | "Soon as we may" |
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