The Long LineThe Long Line

Arthur Sullivan

Princess Ida

Movements

  1. Overture

Act I

  1. “Search Throughout the Panorama” (Florian and Chorus)
  2. “Now Hearken to My Strict Command” (Hildebrand and Chorus)
  3. “Today We Meet” (Hilarion)
  4. “We Are Warriors Three” (Arac, Guron, Scynthius and Chorus)
  5. “If You Give Me Your Attention” (Gama)
  6. Finale. “P’raps If You Address the Lady” (Gama & Hildebrand)
  7. Finale. “Expressive Glances” (Hilarion, Cyril & Florian)
  8. Finale. “For a Month to Dwell in a Dungeon Cell” (Arac, Guron & Scynthius)

Act II

  1. “Towards the Empyrean Heights” (Lady Psyche, Melissa, Sacharissa and Chorus of Girls)
  2. “Mighty Maiden With a Mission” (Chorus of Girls)
  3. 10. “Minerva! oh, hear me!” … “Oh, goddess wise” (Princess)
  4. “And Thus to Empyrean Heights” (Princess and Chorus)
  5. “I Should Command Here” (Lady Blanche)
  6. “Come, Mighty Must” (Lady Blanche)
  7. “Gently, Gently” (Cyril, Hilarion and Florian)
  8. “I Am a Maiden, Cold and Stately” (Cyril, Hilarion and Florian)
  9. “The World Is but a Broken Toy” (Princess, Cyril, Hilarion and Florian)
  10. “A Lady Fair, of Lineage High” (Psyche with Cyril, Hilarion and Florian)
  11. “The Woman of the Wisest Wit” (Psyche, Melissa, Cyril, Hilarion and Florian)
  12. “Now Wouldn’t You Like to Rule the Roast” (Melissa and Blanche)
  13. “Merrily Ring the Luncheon Bell” (Blanche, Cyril and Chorus of Girls)
  14. “Would You Know the Kind of Maid?” (Cyril)
  15. Finale. “Oh, Joy! Our Chief Is Saved” (Princess, Hilarion, Cyril, Florian and Chorus)
  16. Finale. “Whom Thou Hast Chained Must Wear His Chain” (Hilarion, Melissa, Princess and Chorus)
  17. Finale. “Walls and Fences Scaling” (Princess, Hildebrand and Chorus)
  18. Finale. “Some Years Ago, No Doubt You Know” (Hildebrand and Chorus)
  19. Finale. “We May Remark, Though Nothing Can Dismay Us” (Arac, Guron and Scynthius)
  20. Finale. “To Yield at Once to Such a Foe With Shame Were Rife” (Princess and Chorus)

Act III

  1. “Death to the invader” (Chorus, Melissa)
  2. “Whene’er I spoke sarcastic joke” (Gama, Chorus)
  3. “I built upon a rock” (Princess)
  4. “When anger spreads his wing” (Chorus)
  5. “This helmet I suppose” (Arac, Guron, Synthius, Chorus)
  6. “This is our duty plain” (Chorus)
  7. Finale “With joy abiding”

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