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Arthur Sullivan

Ruddigore

Movements

  1. Overture

Act I

  1. Finale “Hail the Bride of Seventeen Summers” (Chorus)
  2. Finale “When the Buds Are Blossoming” (Chorus)
  3. Finale “Hold, bride and bridegroom”
  4. Finale “When I’m a Bad Bart, I Will Tell Taradiddles!” (Robin and Chorus)
  5. Finale “Oh, Happy the Lily”
  6. Hornpipe
  7. “Cheerily Carols the Lark” (Margaret)
  8. “To a Garden Full of Posies” (Margaret)
  9. “Fair is Rose as bright as May day” (Zorah, Chorus)
  10. “From the Briny Sea” (Chorus of Bridesmaids)
  11. “I Shipped, D’Ye See” (Robin)
  12. “I know a youth who loves a little maid” (Rose, Robin)
  13. “If somebody there chanced to be” (Rose)
  14. “If well his suit has sped” (Chorus)
  15. “In sailing o’er life’s ocean wide” (Rose, Richard, Robin)
  16. “My boy, you may take it from me” (Robin, Richard)
  17. “Oh why am I moody and sad?” (Sir Despard, Chorus)
  18. “Sir Rupert Murgatroyd, his leisure and his riches” (Hannah, Chorus)
  19. “The battle’s roar is over” (Rose, Richard)
  20. “Welcome, gentry” (Chorus)
  21. “You understand? I think I do” (Richard, Sir Despard)

Act II

  1. Finale “Oh, happy the lily when kiss’d by the bee”
  2. Finale “When a Man Has Been a Naughty Baronet”
  3. Melodrame
  4. “Away, Remorse!” (Sir Ruthven)
  5. “Happily coupled are we” (Rose, Richard)
  6. “He yields! He yields!” (Chorus)
  7. “I once was a very abandon’d person” (Margaret, Sir Despard)
  8. “I once was as meek as a newborn lamb” (Sir Ruthven, Adam)
  9. “In bygone days I had thy love” (Rose, Chorus, Sir Ruthven, Richard)
  10. “My eyes are fully open to my awful situation” (Margaret, Sir Ruthven, Sir Despard)
  11. “Painted emblems of a race” (Chorus, Sir Ruthven, Sir Roderic)
  12. “There grew a little flower” (Hannah, Sir Roderic)
  13. “When the night wind howls” (Sir Roderic, Chorus)

Elsewhere

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