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Featuring
All of the Music as MIDI Files
and
The Full Lyrics and Dialogue
Welcome to an Internet "Web Opera" — a full Gilbert and Sullivan Opera, with all the music, lyrics, and dialogue! All you need to enjoy this opera is the ability to listen to midi files on your computer. MIDI files are not recordings as such — instead, they contain computer code which gives instructions to your computer sound circuitry to emulate musical instruments. This makes the files very much smaller than sound recordings, but cannot include voices. Thus, we provide the lyrics on the screen for you to sing-along with the music.
The opera is illustrated with historical photographs of D'Oyly Carte Opera Company productions.
You can also download all of these MIDI files as a ZIP file. Alternatively, these files are available in Karaoke format and as NoteWorthy Composer files.
THE WEB OPERA
ACT I
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No. 1 |
"When maiden loves, she sits and sighs" (Phœbe) |
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>>Spoken Dialogue |
| No. 1a |
"When jealous torments rack my soul" (Wilfrid — Cut Song)
Larry Byler has made a PDF of the vocal score to this number available, which may be downloaded here. For further information, see our cut songs page. |
| No. 2 |
"Tower warders, Under orders" (Chorus & 2nd Yeoman) |
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>>Spoken Dialogue |
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No. 3 |
"When our gallant Norman foes"
(Dame Carruthers & Chorus) |
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>>Spoken Dialogue |
| No. 3a |
"A laughing boy but yesterday" (Sergeant Meryll — Cut Song)
Larry Byler has made PDF of the vocal score to this number available, which may be downloaded here. For further information, see our cut songs page. |
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>>Spoken Dialogue |
| No. 4 |
"Alas! I Waver To and Fro" (Phœbe, Leonard, & Sergeant Meryll) |
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>>Spoken Dialogue |
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No. 5 |
"Is life a boon?" (Colonel Fairfax) |
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>>Spoken Dialogue |
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No. 6 |
"Here's a Man of Jollity" (Chorus) |
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>>Spoken Dialogue |
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"I Have a Song To Sing, O!" ( Elsie Maynard & Jack Point) |
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>>Spoken Dialogue |
| No. 8 |
"How Say You Maiden, Will You Wed" ( Elsie, Point & Lieutenant) |
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>>Spoken Dialogue |
| No. 9 |
"I've Jibe and Joke" (Point) |
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>>Spoken Dialogue |
| No. 10 |
"'Tis Done! I Am a Bride!" (Elsie) |
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>>Spoken Dialogue |
| No. 11 |
"Were I Thy Bride" ( Phœbe) |
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>>Spoken Dialogue |
| No. 12 |
"Oh, Sergeant Meryll, Is It True" ( Act I Finale) |
ACT II
Send your comments on this Web Opera, or any other aspect of the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, to the Curator, Paul Howarth.
Page modified
27 August, 2011
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