WEB OPERA

All the music, lyrics, and dialogue

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The text and lyrics below have been primarily contributed by Clifton Coles, taken from “Plays and Poems” by WS Gilbert. Some discrepancies may exist between this and other editions.

ACT I - Market Place of Elsinore.

• No. 1 - Opening Chorus and Ballad - Christina - “Set the merry bunting flying, fire the cannon, ring the bells…”
• Dialogue
• No. 2 - Song - Erling - “When I bestow my bosom’s store”
• Dialogue
• No. 3 - Duet - Nanna and Thora - “Oh, my goodness, here’s the nobility”
• Dialogue
• No. 4 - Quartet - Nanna, Thora, Erling, and Tortenssen - “If all is as you say”
• Dialogue
• No. 5 - Chorus - “Here are warriors all ablaze”
• Dialogue
• No. 6 - Duet - Griffenfeld and Dame Cortlandt - “Now what would I do if you proved untrue”
• Dialogue
• No. 7 - Trio - Griffenfeld, Nanna, and Thora - “Oh what a fund of joy jocund lies hid in harmless hoaxes”
• Dialogue
• No. 8 - Song - Regent - “A King, though he’s pestered with cares”
• Dialogue
• No. 9 - Duet - Regent and Griffenfeld - “I’ve grasped your scheme, if I can say as much without intrusion”
• Dialogue
• No. 10 - Duet - Dame and Syndic - “Now all that we’ve agreed upon, O”
• Dialogue
• No. 11 - Song - Nanna - “My wedded life”
• Dialogue
• No. 12 - Finale of Act I - “To the Regent — the Regent — the Regent, away”

ACT II - Castle Courtyard

• No. 13 - Opening Chorus - “Thank you Private Griffenfeld”
• Dialogue
• No. 14 - Song - Griffenfeld - “Quixotic is his enterprise”
• Dialogue
• No. 15 - Duet - Harold and Blanca - “So it ends with a wedding at Hanover Square”
• Dialogue
• No. 16 - Quartet - Syndic, Dame Cortlandt, Sentry, and Griffenfeld - “One day, the Syndic of this town”
• Dialogue
• No. 17 - Patter-Trio - Griffenfeld, Nanna, and Thora - “It is rough on Labouchere”
• Dialogue
• No. 18 - Dancing Quartet - Nanna, Thora, Erling, and Tortenssen - “All right now”
• Dialogue
• No. 19 - Chorus - “Ring the bells and bang the brasses”
• Dialogue
• No. 20 - Finale of Act II - “Who love with all sincerity, O”