Gilbert and Sullivan Archive

HMS Pinafore


You are here: Archive Home > HMS Pinafore > Web Opera

WEB OPERA

With historic photograhs of productions by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company




Complete sets of the MIDI files and the Karaoke files can be downloaded as single Zip files:

  OVERTURE  

ACT I

No. 1 Opening Chorus "We sail the ocean blue"
No. 2 Recit. & Song (Little Buttercup) "Hail, men-o'-wars-men... I'm called Little Buttercup"
  Dialogue  
Nos.
2a & 3
Recit., Scena & Ballad
(Buttercup & Boatswain; Ralph & Chorus)
"But tell me, who's the youth... The nightingale...
A maiden fair to see"
  Dialogue  
No. 4 Recit. & Song (Captain & Chorus) "My gallant crew, good morning!...
I am the captain of the Pinafore"
No. 4a Recit. (Buttercup & Captain) "Sir, you are sad"
No.5 Song (Josephine) "Sorry her lot who loves to well"
  Dialogue  
Nos.
6 & 7
Barcarolle
Chorus of Sailors
"Over the bright blue sea...
Sir Joseph's Barge is seen"
No. 8 Entrance of Sir Joseph "Now give three cheers"
No. 9 Song (Sir Joseph & Chorus) "When I was a lad"
  Dialogue  
No. 9a Exit for Ladies "For I hold that on the seas"
  Dialogue  
No. 10 Trio & Chorus (Ralph, Boatswain's Mate & Carpenter's Mate) "A British tar is a soaring soul"
  Dialogue  
No. 11 Duet (Josephine & Ralph) "Refrain, audacious tar"
No. 12 Finale Act I "Can I survive this overbearing"

  ENTR'ACTE

ACT II

No. 13 Song (Captain) "Fair moon, to thee I sing"
  Dialogue  
No. 14 Duet (Buttercup & Captain) "Things are seldom what they seem"
  Dialogue  
No. 15 Scena (Josephine) "The hours creep on apace"
  Dialogue  
No. 16 Trio (Josephine, Captain & Sir Joseph) "Never mind the why and wherefore"
  Dialogue  
No. 17 Duet (Captain & Dick Deadeye) "Kind captain, I've important information"
No. 18 Soli & Chorus "Carefully on tiptoe stealing"
  Dialogue  
No. 19 Octette "Farewell, my own"
No. 20 Recit. (Sir Joseph, Buttercup & Chorus)
Legend (Buttercup & Chorus)

"My pain and my distress...
A many years ago."

  Dialogue  
No. 21 Finale "Oh joy, oh rapture unforseen!"

Archive Home  | HMS Pinafore

Page Created February 24, 2019