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Savoy Theatre

The first theatre lighted entirely by electricity, where the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company premiered the G&S Operas

Ages Ago

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Ages Ago Numbers
-Prelude
-Goodbye, Goodbye
-When nature sleeps
-Eh! What is that ye say
-Ha! What was that
-It does perplex, annoy and vex
-We fly to fields of fancy
-Entr'acte and Recit: I breathe, I live
-Moments so fleeting
-Would you know that maiden fair
-In pity tell, O Lady mine
-I stand on my authority
-At twenty-three Lord Carnaby
-'Tis Done, the spell is broken
-The subject drop (Finale)
Cox and Box Numbers
-Overture
-Rataplan
-Stay, Bouncer, Stay
-Hush-a-bye, Bacon
-My Master is Punctual
-Who are You, Sir?
-The Buttercup
-Not Long Ago
-Sixes!
-My Hand upon It
Thespis Numbers
-Throughout the night, the constellations
-Oh, I'm the celestial drudge
-Oh incident unprecedented
-Here far away from all the world
-Climbing over rocky mountain
-Picnic Waltz
-I once knew a chap who discharged a function
-So that's arranged--you take my place, my boy (Finale Act I)
-Of all symposia
-Little maid of Arcadee
-Olympus is now in a terrible muddle
-Oh rage and fury, Oh shame and sorrow
-You're Diana. I'm Apollo
-We can't stand this (Finale Act II)
Trial By Jury Numbers
-Hark, the hour of ten is sounding
-Is this the Court of the Exchequer?
-When first my old, old love I knew
-All hail great Judge!
-When I, good friends, was call'd to the Bar
-Swear thou the Jury
-Where is the Plaintiff?
-Oh, never, never, never, since I joined the human race
-May it please you, my lud!
-That she is reeling is plain to see!
-Oh, gentlemen, listen, I pray
-That seems a reasonable proposition
-A nice dilemma we have here
-I love him, I love him, with fervour unceasing
-Oh, joy unbounded, with wealth surrounded
Sorcerer Numbers
-Ring forth ye bells
-Constance, my daughter, why this strange depression?
-When he is here
-The air is charged with amatory numbers
-Time was when Love and I were well acquainted
-Sir Marmaduke, my dear young friend Alexis
-(Dance)
-With heart and with voice
-My kindly friends
-Happy young heart
-My child, I join in these congratulations
-With heart and with voice (Double Chorus)
-Welcome, joy!
-All is prepared
-Love feeds on many kinds of food
-My name is John Wellington Wells
-Sprites of earth and air
-Now to the banquet we press (Finale Act I)
-Happy are we in our loving frivolity (1877 version only)
-Tis twelve, I think (1884 version)
-Dear friends, take pity on my lot
-Thou hast the pow'r thy vaunted love
-I rejoice that it's decided
-Oh, I have wrought much evil with my spells
-Alexis! Doubt me not, my loved one
-Oh, my voice is sad and low
-Oh, joyous boon! oh, mad delight
-Prepare for sad surprises
-Or he or I must die (Finale Act II)
HMS Pinafore Numbers
-Overture
-We sail the ocean blue
-Hail! men-o'-war's men
-But tell me who's the youth
-The nightingale
-A maiden fair to see
-My gallant crew, good morning
-Sir, you are sad
-Sorry her lot who loves too well
-Over the bright blue sea
-Sir Joseph's barge is seen
-Now give three cheers
-When I was a lad
-For I hold that on the sea
-A British tar
-Refrain, audacious tar
-Carefully on tiptoe stealing (Finale Act I)
-Entr'acte
-Fair moon, to thee I sing
-Things are seldom what they seem
-The hours creep on apace
-Kind Captain, I've important information
-Never mind the why and wherefore
-Carefully on tiptoe stealing
-Pretty daughter of mine
-Farewell, my own
-A many years ago
-Here, take her, sir
-Oh joy, oh rapture unforeseen (Finale Act II)
Pirates of Penzance Numbers
-Overture
-Pour, oh pour, the pirate sherry
-When Fred'ric was a little lad
-Oh, better far to live and die
-Oh! false one, you have deceiv'd me
-Climbing over rocky mountain
-Stop, ladies, pray
-Oh, is there not one maiden breast?
-Poor wand'ring one
-What ought we to do?
-How beautifully blue the sky
-Stay, we must not lose our senses
-Hold, monsters
-I am the very model of a modern Major-General
-Oh, men of dark and dismal fate (Finale Act I)
-Oh, dry the glist'ning tear
-Then, Frederic, let your escort lion-hearted
-When the foeman bares his steel
-Now for the pirates' lair!
-When you had left our pirate fold
-Away, away! My heart's on fire!
-All is prepar'd; your gallant crew await you
-Stay, Fred'ric, stay
-No, I'll be brave
-When a felon's not engaged in his employment
-A rollicking band of pirates we
-With cat-like tread, upon our prey we steal
-Hush, hush, not a word!
-Sighing softly to the river (Finale Act II)
Patience Numbers
-Overture
-Twenty love-sick maidens we
-Still brooding on their mad infatuation
-I cannot tell what this love may be
-Twenty love-sick maidens we (Exit)
-The soldiers of our Queen
-If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
-In a doleful train two and two we walk
-When I first put this uniform on
-Am I alone and unobserved?
-Long years ago, fourteen maybe
-Prithee, pretty maiden
-Though to marry you would very selfish be
-Let the merry cymbals sound (Finale Act I)
-On such eyes as maidens cherish
-Sad is that woman's lot
-Turn, oh turn, in this direction
-A magnet hung in a hardware shop
-Love is a plaintive song
-So go to him, and say to him
-It's clear that mediaeval art
-If Saphir I choose to marry
-When I go out of door
-I'm a Waterloo House young man
-After much debate internal (Finale Act II)
Iolanthe Numbers
-Overture
-Tripping hither, tripping thither
-Iolanthe! From thy dark exile thou art summoned
-Good-morrow, good mother
-Fare thee well, attractive stranger
-Good-morrow, good lover
-None shall part us from each other
-Loudly let the trumpet bray
-The law is the true embodiment
-My well-loved Lord
-Nay, tempt me not
-Spurn not the nobly born
-My lords, it may not be
-When I went to the Bar
-When darkly looms the day (Finale Act I)
-When all night long a chap remains
-Strephon's a member of Parliament
-When Britain really ruled the waves
-In vain to us you plead
-Oh, foolish fay
-Though p'r'aps I may incur thy blame
-Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest
-If you go in you're sure to win
-If we're weak enough to tarry
-My lord, a suppliant at your feet
-It may not be
-Soon as we may, off and away (Finale Act II)
Princess Ida Numbers
-Introduction
-Search throughout the panorama
-Now hearken to my strict command
-Today we meet
-From the distant panorama
-We are warriors three
-If you give me your attention
-P'raps if you Address the Lady (Finale Act I)
-Towards the empyrean heights
-Mighty maiden with a mission
-Minerva! oh, hear me!
-And thus to Empyrean Heights
-Come, mighty Must
-Gently, gently
-I am a maiden, cold and stately
-The world is but a broken toy
-A lady fair, of lineage high
-The woman of the wisest wit
-Now wouldn't you like to rule the roast
-Merrily ring the luncheon bell
-Would you know the kind of maid?
-Oh, joy! our chief is saved (Finale Act II)
-Death to the invader
-Whene'er I spoke
-I built upon a rock
-When anger spreads his wing
-This helmet, I suppose
-This is our duty plain
-With joy abiding (Finale Act III)
Mikado Numbers
-Overture (Mikado)
-If you want to know who we are
-A Wand'ring Minstrel I
-Our Great Mikado, virtuous man
-Young man, despair
-And have I journey'd for a month
-Behold the Lord High Executioner
-As some day it may happen
-Comes a train of little ladies
-Three little maids from school are we
-So please you, Sir, we much regret
-Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
-I am so proud
-With aspect stern and gloomy stride (Finale Act I)
-Braid the raven hair
-The sun whose rays are all ablaze
-Brightly dawns our wedding day
-Here's a how-de-do
-Mi-ya Sa-ma
-A more humane Mikado
-The criminal cried as he dropped him down
-See how the Fates their gifts allot
-The flowers that bloom in the spring
-Alone, and yet alive
-On a tree by a river
-There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
-For he's gone and married Yum-Yum (Finale Act II)
Ruddigore Numbers
-Overture (Ruddigore)
-Fair is Rose
-Sir Rupert Murgatroyd
-If somebody there chanced to be
-I know a youth
-From the briny sea
-I shipp'd, d'ye see, in a revenue sloop
-Hornpipe
-My boy, you may take it from me
-The battle's roar is over
-If well his suit has sped
-In sailing o'er life's ocean wide
-Cheerily carols the lark
-Welcome, gentry
-Oh, why am I moody and sad?
-You understand? I think I do
-Hail the bride of seventeen summers (Finale Act I)
-I once was as meek
-Happily coupled are we
-In bygone days
-Painted emblems of a race
-When the night wind howls
-Away, remorse!
-He yields, he yields
-I once was a very abandoned person
-My eyes are fully open
-Melodrame
-There grew a little flower
-When a man has been a naughty baronet (Finale Act II)
Yeomen of the Guard Numbers
-Overture
-When maiden loves, she sits and sighs
-When jealous torments rack my soul
-Tower warders, under orders
-When our gallant Norman foes
-A laughing boy but yesterday
-Alas! I waver to and fro
-Is life a boon?
-Here's a man of jollity
-I have a song to sing, O!
-How say you, maiden, will you wed?
-I've jibe and joke
-'Tis done! I am a bride!
-Were I thy bride
-Oh, Sergeant Meryll, is it true? (Finale Act I)
-Night has spread her pall once more
-Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon
-Hereupon we're both agreed
-Free from his fetters grim
-Strange adventure
-Hark! What was that, sir?
-A man who would woo a fair maid
-When a wooer goes a-wooing
-Rapture, rapture
-Comes the pretty young bride (Finale Act II)
Gondoliers Numbers
-Overture
-List and learn
-From the sunny Spanish shore
-In enterprise of martial kind
-O rapture, when alone together
-There was a time
-I stole the prince
-But, bless my heart
-Try we life-long
-Bridegroom and bride
-When a merry maiden marries
-Kind sir, you cannot have the heart
-Then one of us will be a Queen (Finale Act I)
-Of happiness the very pith
-Rising early in the morning
-Take a pair of sparkling eyes
-Here we are at the risk of our lives
-Dance a cachucha
-There lived a king
-In a contemplative fashion
-With ducal pomp
-On the day when I was wedded
-To help unhappy commoners
-I am a courtier grave and serious
-Here is a case unprecedented
-Here is a case unprecedented (Finale Act II)
Utopia Ltd. Numbers
-In lazy languor motionless
-O make way for the Wise Men
-In every mental lore
-Let all your doubts take wing
-Quaff the nectar
-A King of autocratic power we
-Although of native maids the cream
-Bold-faced ranger
-First you're born
-Subjected to your heavenly gaze
-Oh, maiden rich in Girton lore
-Ah! gallant soldier
-It's understood, I think
-Introduction
-Oh, admirable art
-Some seven men form an association (Finale Act I)
-Oh, Zara!...A tenor, all singers above
-Words of love too loudly spoken
-Society has quite forsaken
-Entrance of Court
-Drawing Room Music
-This ceremonial...Eagle high in cloudland soaring
-With fury deep we burn
-If you think that when banded in unity
-With wily brain
-A wonderful joy our eyes to bless
-Then I may sing and play?
-Oh, would some demon pow'r
-Ah, Lady Sophy, then you love me!
-Oh, rapture unrestrained
-Tarantella
-Upon our sea-girt land
-There's a little group of isles beyond the wave
Grand Duke Numbers
-Overture
-Won't it be a pretty wedding?
-Pretty Lisa, fair and tasty
-By the mystic regulation
-Were I a king in very truth
-How would I play this part?
-My goodness me! what shall I do?
-About a century since
-Strange the views some peole hold
-Now take a card, and gaily sing
-The good Grand Duke
-A pattern to professors of monarchical autonomy
-As o'er our penny roll we sing
-When you find you're a broken-down critter
-Come hither, all you people (Finale Act I)
-As before you we defile
-Your loyalty our Ducal heart-strings touches
-Yes, Ludwig and Julia are mated
-Take care of him
-Now Julia, come, consider it from
-Your Highness, there's a party at the door
-Now away to the wedding we go
-So ends my dream, Broken ev'ry promise plighted
-If the light of love's lingering ember
-Come, bumpers--aye, ever so many
-Why, who is this approaching?
-His Highness we know not
-The Prince of Monte Carlo
-We're rigged out in magnificent array
-Dance
-Take my advice--when deep in debt
-Hurrah! Now away to the wedding
-Well, you're a pretty kind of fellow
-Happy couples, lightly treading (Finale Act II)