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WEB OPERA
Written by W. S. Gilbert
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Featuring
A Full Hour of Music
andAll of the Lyrics and Dialogue
This satire on Victorian melodrama has a high esteem among dedicated lovers of Gilbert and Sullivan operas. But from the earliest performances its popularity among the wider public of suffered through comparison with its wildly successful immediate predecessor, The Mikado. As a result there are few opportunities to see professional productions today, but we hope this Web Opera will convince you that in Ruddigore, Gilbert and Sullivan produced another fine piece of theatre.
The MIDI files were sequenced by Paul Howarth from Noteworthy files prepared by Colin Johnson. There is also a MIDI file of the Overture arranged by Geoffrey Toye for the 1920 revival of the opera sequenced by George Pollen. If you would like to have them all to play at any time, you can download them in a zipped file (129K).
The Karaoke files are also available for download as a single zipped file (165K) . To play these you will need to install a player such as the vanBasco Karaoke player.
MORTALS
- Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd (Disguised as Robin Oakapple, a Young Farmer)
- Richard Dauntless (His Foster-Brother - A Man-o'-wars-man)
- Sir Despard Murgatroyd (Of Ruddigore - A Wicked Baronet)
- Old Adam Goodheart (Robin's Faithful Servant)
- Rose Maybud (A Village Maiden)
- Mad Margaret
- Dame Hannah (Rose's Aunt)
- Zorah (Professional Bridesmaid)
- Ruth (Professional Bridesmaid)
- Sir Rupert Murgatroyd (The First Baronet)
- Sir Jasper Murgatroyd (The Third Baronet)
- Sir Lionel Murgatroyd (The Sixth Baronet)
- Sir Conrad Murgatroyd (The Twelfth Baronet)
- Sir Desmond Murgatroyd (The Sixteenth Baronet)
- Sir Gilbert Murgatroyd (The Eighteenth Baronet)
- Sir Mervyn Murgatroyd (The Twentieth Baronet)
- Sir Roderic Murgatroyd (The Twenty-first Baronet)
ACT I. — The Fishing Village of Rederring, in Cornwall.
ACT II. — Picture Gallery in Ruddigore Castle.
Time — Early in the 19th century
First produced at the Savoy Theatre on 22 January, 1887.
| Overture |
ACT I
| No. 1 | Chorus of Bridesmaids with solo (Zorah) | "Fair is Rose" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 2 | Legend (Hannah) with Chorus | "Sir Rupert Murgatroyd" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 3 | Song (Rose) | "If somebody there chanced to be" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 4 | Duet (Rose & Robin) | "I know a youth" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 5 | Chorus of Bridesmaids | "From the briny sea" |
| No. 6 | Song (Richard) and Hornpipe | "I shipped, d'ye see" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 7 | Song (Robin) | "My boy, you may take it from me" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 8 | Duet (Rose & Richard) | "The battle's roar is over" |
| No. 9 | Entrance of Bridesmaids | "If well his suit has sped" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 10 | Trio (Rose, Richard & Robin) | "In sailing o'er life's ocean wide" |
| No. 11 | Recit. & Aria (Margaret) | "Cheerily carols the lark... To a garden full of posies" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 12 | Chorus | "Welcome gentry" |
| No. 13 | Song (Sir Despard) & Chorus | "Oh why am I moody and sad?" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 14 | Duet (Richard & Sir Despard) | "You understand?" |
| No. 15 | Finale, Act I | "Hail the Bride of seventeen summers" |
ACT II
| No. 16 | Duet (Robin & Adam) | "I once was as meek as a new-born lamb" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 17 | Duet & Chorus (Rose & Richard) | "Happily coupled are we" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 18 | Song (Rose) | "In bygone days I had thy love" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 19 | Chorus | "Painted emblems of a race" |
| No. 20 | Song (Sir Roderic & Chorus) | "When the night wind howls" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 21 | Chorus | "He yields! He yields!" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 22 | Recit & Song (Robin) | "Away remorse... Henceforth all the crimes or For thirty-five years" |
| No. 23 | Duet (Margaret & Sir Despard) | "I once was a very abandoned person" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 24 | Trio (Margaret, Robin & Sir Despard) | "My eyes are fully open" |
| Dialogue (including Melodrame) | ||
| No. 25 | Song (Hannah with Sir Roderic) | "There grew a little flower" |
| Dialogue | ||
| No. 26 | Finale, Act II | "When a man has been a naughty Baronet" |
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