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Arthur Sullivan

The Grand Duke

Movements

  1. Overture

Act I

  1. 1. “Won’t It Be a Pretty Wedding?” (Chorus)
  2. 1a. “Pretty Lisa, Fair and Tasty” (Lisa, Ludwig, Chorus)
  3. 2. “By the Mystic Regulation” (Ludwig, Chorus)
  4. 3. “Were I a King in Very Truth” (Ernest, Chorus)
  5. 4. “How Would I Play This Part” (Julia, Ernest)
  6. 5. “My Goodness Me! What Shall I Do?” (Ludwig, Chorus)
  7. 5. “Ten Minutes Since I Met a Chap” (Ludwig, Chorus)
  8. 6. “About a Century Since” (Notary)
  9. 7. “Strange the Views Some People Hold” (Julia, Lisa, Ernest, Notary, Ludwig)
  10. 8. “Now Take a Card and Gaily Sing” (Julia, Lisa, Ernest, Notary, Ludwig)
  11. 9. “The Good Grand Duke” (Chorus of Chamberlains)
  12. 9a. “A Pattern to Professors of Monarchical Autonomy” (Grand Duke)
  13. 10. “As O’er Our Penny Roll We Sing” (Baroness, Grand Duke)
  14. 11. “When You Find You’re a Broken-down Critter” (Grand Duke)
  15. 12. Finale. “Come Hither, All You People” (Ensemble)
  16. 12. Finale. “Oh, a Monarch Who Boasts Intellectual Graces” (Ludwig, Chorus)
  17. 12. Finale. “Ah, Pity Me, My Comrades True” (Julia, Chorus)
  18. 12. Finale. “Oh, Listen to Me, Dear” (Julia, Lisa, Chorus)
  19. 12. Finale. “The Die Is Cast” (Lisa, Chorus)
  20. 12. Finale. “For This Will Be a Jolly Court” (Ludwig, Chorus)

Act II

  1. 13. “As Before You We Defile” (Chorus)
  2. 14. “Your Loyalty Our Ducal Heart-String Touches” (Ludwig, Chorus)
  3. 14a. “At the Outset I May Mention” (Ludwig, Chorus)
  4. 15. “Yes, Ludwig and His Julia Are Mated” (Ludwig)
  5. 15a. “Take Care of Him – He’s Much Too Good to Live” (Lisa)
  6. 16. “Now Julia, Come, Consider It From” (Julia, Ludwig)
  7. 17. “Your Highness, There’s a Party at the Door” (Chorus)
  8. 17a. “With Fury Indescribable I Burn” (Baroness, Ludwig)
  9. 18. “Now Away to the Wedding We Go” (Baroness, Chorus)
  10. 19. “So Ends My Dream” (Julia)
  11. 19. “Broken ev’ry promise plighted” (Julia)
  12. 20. “If the Light of Love’s Lingering Ember” (Julia, Ernest, Chorus)
  13. 21. “Come, Bumpers – Aye, Ever-so-many” (Baroness, Chorus)
  14. 22. “Why, Who Is This Approaching?” (Ludwig, Chorus)
  15. 23. “The Prince of Monte Carlo” (Herald, Chorus)
  16. 24. “His Highness We Know Not” (Ludwig)
  17. 25. “We’re Rigged Out in Magnificent Array” (Prince of Monte Carlo)
  18. 26. Dance
  19. 27. “Take My Advice – When Deep in Debt” (Prince of Monte Carlo, Chorus)
  20. 28. “Hurrah! Now Away to the Wedding” (Ensemble)
  21. 28a. “Well, You’re a Pretty Kind of Fellow” (Grand Duke, Chorus)
  22. 29. “Happy Couples, Lightly Treading” (Ensemble)

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