The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company Songtexte
Iolanthe: Nightmare Song

1. The Yeoman of the Guard: Introduction by Town Crier / Here Upon We're Both Agreed
2. The Yeoman of the Guard: A Man Who Would Woo a Fair Maid
3. The Yeoman of the Guard: Finale Act One
4. Trial by Jury: When I Good Friends Was Called to the Bar
5. The Pirates of Penzance: I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General
6. The Pirates of Penzance: Poor Wandering One
7. The Pirates of Penzance (reprise)
8. H.M.S. Pinafore: I Am the Monarch of the Sea
9. H.M.S. Pinafore: When I Was a Lad
10. H.M.S. Pinafore: Never Mind the Why and Wherefore
11. Iolanthe: Loudly Let the Trumpet Bray
12. Iolanthe: If You Go In
13. Iolanthe: Finale
14. The Grand Duke: The Roulette Song
15. Princess Ida: I Am a Maiden
16. Princess Ida: The World Is but a Broken Toy
17. Princess Ida: Wouldn't You Like to Rule the Roost
18. Princess Ida: The Kissing Song
19. Ruddigore: My Eyes Are Fully Open
20. Ruddigore: Ghosts High Noon
21. Ruddigore: When the Buds Are Blossoming
22. The Mikado: Our Great Mikado
23. The Mikado: Three Little Maids
24. The Mikado: Finale Act 2
25. The Gondoliers: Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes
26. The Gondoliers: We're Called Gondolieri
27. The Gondoliers: I am a Courtier Grave and Serious
28. The Gondoliers: Once More Gondoliers

1. Trial By Jury: Hark the Hour of Ten Is Sounding
2. Trial By Jury: Judge's Song
3. H.M.S. Pinafore: We Sail The Ocean Blue / Buttercup's Song
4. H.M.S. Pinafore: My Gallant Crew / I Am the Captain of the Pinafore
5. H.M.S. Pinafore: When I Was a Lad
6. H.M.S. Pinafore: Never Mind the Why and Wherefore
7. H.M.S. Pinafore: He Is an Englishman
8. The Pirates of Penzance: Pirate King's Song
9. The Pirates of Penzance: Oh Is There Not One Maiden Breast? / Poor Wandering One
10. The Pirates of Penzance: How Beautifully Blue the Sky
11. The Pirates of Penzance: I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General
12. The Pirates of Penzance: When the Foeman Bears His Steel
13. The Pirates of Penzance: When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold
14. The Pirates of Penzance: Ah! Leave Me Not to Pine Alone
15. The Pirates of Penzance: A Policeman's Lot Is Not a Happy One
16. The Pirates of Penzance: With Catlike Tread
17. Iolanthe: March and Entry of the Peers
18. Iolanthe: The Law Is the True Embodiment
19. Iolanthe: When I Went to the Bar
20. Iolanthe: When All Night Long
21. Iolanthe: When Britain Really Ruled the Waves
22. Iolanthe: Oh Foolish Fay
23. Iolanthe: Nightmare Song
24. Iolanthe: If You Go In
25. Iolanthe: Finale: Soon As We May (von Sir Malcolm Sargent)

1. The Mikado: If You Want to Know Who We Are / A Wandering Minstrel I
2. The Mikado: Our Great Mikado
3. The Mikado: Behold the Lord High Executioner
4. The Mikado: I've Got a Little List
5. The Mikado: Three Little Maids From School
6. The Mikado: Braid The Raven Hair
7. The Mikado: The Sun Whose Rays
8. The Mikado: Here's a How-de-do
9. The Mikado: A More Humane Mikado
10. The Mikado: The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring
11. The Mikado: Tit Willow
12. The Mikado: There is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast
13. The Yeomen of the Guard: Is Life a Boon?
14. The Yeomen of the Guard: Where I Thy Bride
15. The Yeomen of the Guard: Hereupon We're Both Agreed
16. The Yeomen of the Guard: Strange Adventure
17. The Yeomen of the Guard: A Man Who Would Woo A Fair Maid
18. The Yeomen of the Guard: When A Wooer Goes A Wooing
19. The Gondoliers: For the Merriest Fellows Are We
20. The Gondoliers: We're Called Gondolieri
21. The Gondoliers: From the Sunny Spanish Shore
22. The Gondoliers: In Enterprise of Martial Kind
23. The Gondoliers: I Stole the Prince
24. The Gondoliers: When a Merry Maiden Marries
25. The Gondoliers: A Regular, Royal Queen
26. The Gondoliers: Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes
27. The Gondoliers: There Lived a King
28. The Gondoliers: In a Contemplative Fashion
29. The Gondoliers: Small Titles and Orders
30. The Gondoliers: I am a Courtier Grave and Serious
31. The Gondoliers: Finale: Once More Gondolieri

The Gondoliers (Version with dialogue)

1. Overture
2. List and learn
3. Good morrow, pretty maids
4. For the merriest fellows are we
5. See, see at last they come to make their choice
6. Buon' giorno, signorine!
7. We're called gondolieri, but that's a vagary
8. And now to choose our brides!
9. Are you peeping?
10. Thank you gallant gondolieri
11. From the sunny Spanish shore
12. In enterprise of martial kind
13. O rapture, when alone together
14. There was a time, a time for ever gone
15. I stole the Prince
16. But, bless my heart, consider my position!
17. Try we life-long we can never
18. Bride-groom and bride!
19. When a merry maiden marries
20. Kind sir, you cannot have the heart, our lives to part
21. Do not give way to this uncalled-for grief
22. Then one of us will be a queen

The Gondoliers (Version with dialogue) (continued)

1. Now pray, what us the cause of this
2. Replying, we sing as one individual
3. For ev'ryone who feels inclined
4. Come let's away - our island crown awaits me
5. Now, Marco dear, my wishes hear
6. Then away they go to an island fair
7. Of happiness the very pith
8. Rising early in the morning
9. Take a pair of sparkling eyes
10. Here we are, at the risk of our lives
11. After sailing to this land
12. Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero
13. There lived a king, as I've been told
14. In a contemplative fashion
15. With ducal pomp and ducal pride
16. This polite attention
17. On the day when I was wedded
18. To help unhappy commoners
19. Small titles and orders for mayors and recorders
20. I am a courtier grave and serious
21. Here is a case unprecedented!
22. Now let the loyal lieges gather round
23. Speak woman speak, we're all attention!
24. The royal prince was by the king entrusted
25. Luiz! Casilda!
26. One more, gondolieri

The Grand Duke

1. Overture
2. Won't it be a pretty wedding?
3. Pretty Lisa, fair and tasty
4. By the mystic regulation
5. Were I a king in very truth
6. How would I play this part
7. My goodness me! What shall I do?
8. Ten minutes since I met a chap
9. About a century since
10. Strange the views some people hold
11. Now take a card, and gaily sing
12. The good Grand Duke of Pfennig Halbpfennig
13. A pattern to professors of monarchical autonomy
14. As o'er out penny roll we sing
15. When you find you're a broken-down critter
16. Come hither, all you people

The Grand Duke (Continued)

1. As before you we defile
2. Your loyalty our... At the outset I may mention
3. Yes, Ludwig and his Julia are mated!
4. Take care of him - he's much too good to live!
5. Now Julia, come, consider it from this dainty point of
6. Your Highness, there's a party at the door
7. Now away to the wedding we go
8. So ends my dream...Broken ev'ry promise plighted
9. If the light of love's lingering ember
10. Come, bumpers-aye, ever-so-many
11. Why, who is this approaching?
12. The Prince of Monte-Carlo
13. His Highness we know not
14. We're rigged out in magnificent array
15. Dance
16. Take my advice - when deep in debt
17. Hurrah! Now away to the wedding
18. Well, you're a pretty kind of fellow
19. Happy couples, lightly treading
20. Overture di Ballo
21. Allegro moderato alla Marcia
22. Allegretto grazioso

H.M.S. Pinafore (Act One)

1. Overture
2. We shall sail the ocean blue
3. Hail! Men o'war's men..I'm called little buttercup
4. The nightingale sighed
5. A maiden fair to see
6. My gallant crew...I am the Captain of the Pinafore
7. Sir, you are sad
8. Sorry her lot who loves too well
9. Over the bright blue sea
10. Sir Joseph's barge is seen
11. Now give three cheers...I am the monarch of the sea
12. When I was a lad
13. A British tar
14. Refrain, audacious tar
15. Can I survive this overbearing

H.M.S. Pinafore (Act Two)

1. Entracte
2. Fair moon to thee I sing
3. Things are seldom what they seem
4. The hours creep on apace
5. Never mind the why and wherefore
6. Kind Captain, I've important information
7. Carefully on tip-toe...He is an Englishman
8. Farewell, my own
9. A many years ago
10. A joy! Oh rapture unforseen

Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri (Version with dialogue) (Act One)

1. Overture
2. Tripping hither, tripping thither
3. Iolanthe! From thy dark exile
4. Good morrow, good mother, Good mother, good morrow
5. Fare thee well, attractive stranger
6. Good morrow, good lover! Good lover, good morrow!
7. None shall part us from each other
8. Loudly let the trumpet bray
9. Entrance of the Lord Chancellor tha's
10. The law is the embodiment
11. My well-beloved Lord
12. Nay, tempt me not
13. Spurn not the nobly born
14. Lords, it may not be
15. Said I to myself, said I
16. When darkly looms the day

Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri (Version with dialogue) (Act Two)

1. When all night long a chap remains
2. Strephon's A Member Of Parliament
3. When Britain really ruled the waves
4. In Vain to Us You Plead
5. Oh, Foolish Fay
6. Though p'r'aps I may incur your blame
7. Love unrequited
8. If you go in you're sure to win
9. If you're weak enough to tarry
10. My Lord, a suppliant at your feet
11. It may not be
12. Soon as we may, off and away

The Mikado or The Town of Titipu (Version without dialogue) (Act One)

1. Overture
2. If you want to know who we are
3. Gentlemen, I pray you tell me maiden...
4. A Wand'ring Minstrel I
5. Our great Mikado, virtuous man
6. Young man, despair
7. And I have journey'd for a month
8. Behold the Lord High Executioner
9. As someday it may happen that a victim...
10. Comes a train of little ladies
11. Three little maids from school are we
12. So please you, Sir, we much regret
13. Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
14. I am so proud, If I allowed
15. With aspect stern and gloomy stride
16. The threaten'd cloud has pass'd away
17. Your revels cease! Assist me, all of you!
18. Oh fool, that flee-est My hallow'd joys!
19. For he's going to marry Yum-Yum
20. The hour of gladness is dead and gone
21. Ye torrents roar! Ye tempests howl!

The Mikado or The Town of Titipu (Version without dialogue) (Act Two)

1. Braid the raven hair, Weave the supple tresses
2. The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze
3. Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day
4. Here's a how-de-do!
5. Miya sama, miya sama, o n'mma no maye ni
6. From ev'ry kind of man Obedience I expect
7. A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist
8. The criminal cried as he dropp'd him down
9. See how the fates their gifts allot
10. The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la
11. Alone and yet alive
12. Hearts do not break! They sting and ache
13. On a tree by a river a little tom tit
14. There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
15. Fanfare
16. For he's gone and married Yum-Yum

Patience (Version with dialogue) (Act One)

1. Overture
2. Twenty love-sick maidens we
3. Still brooding on their mad infatuation!
4. I cannot tell what this love may be
5. Twenty love-sick maidens we
6. The soldiers of our Queen
7. If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
8. In a doleful train two and two we walk all day
9. Twenty love-sick maidens we
10. When I first put this uniform on
11. Am I alone and unobserved?
12. If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic..
13. Long years ago - fourteen, maybe
14. Prithee, pretty maiden - Prithee
15. Though to marry you
16. Let the merry cymbals sound
17. Now tell us, we pray you
18. Heart broken at my Patience's barbarity
19. Stay, we implore you, before our hopes are blighted
20. Your maiden hearts, ah, do steel

Patience (Version with dialogue) (Act One continued, Act Two)

1. Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity
2. We've been thrown over, we're aware
3. And are you going a ticket to buy?
4. Hold! Stay your hand!
5. True love must single hearted be
6. I hear the soft note of the echoing voice
7. But who is this, whose god-like grace...
8. List Reginald, whilst I confess a love that's all...
9. On such eyes as maidens cherish
10. Sad is a woman's lot who, year by year
11. Silvered is the raven hair
12. Turn, oh turn in this direction
13. A magnet hung in a hardware shop
14. Love is a plaintive song
15. So go to him and say to him, with compliment ironical
16. It's clear that the mediaeval art alone retains...
17. If Saphir I choose to marry, I shall be fixed...
18. When I go out of the door
19. I'm a Waterloo House young man
20. After much debate internal, I on Lady Jane decide

The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty (Version with dialogue) (Act One)

1. Overture
2. Pour, Oh pour the pirate sherry
3. When Fred'ric was a little lad
4. Oh, Better Far To Live And Die
5. Oh, false one, you have deceived me
6. Climbing Over Rocky Mountain
7. Stop! ladies, pray! A man!
8. Oh, is there not one maiden breast
9. Oh, sisters, deaf to pity's name, For shame!
10. Poor wand'ring one!
11. What ought we to do, Gentle sisters say?
12. How beautifully blue the sky
13. Stay, we must not lose our senses
14. Hold, Monsters!
15. I am the very model of a modern Major-General

The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty (Version with dialogue) (Act One continued, Act Two)

1. Oh, men of dark and dismal fate
2. Hail Poetry, thou heav'n born maid!
3. You may go, for you're at liberty
4. Pray observe the magnanimity
5. Oh, dry the glist'ning tear
6. Then Frederic
7. When the foeman bares his steel
8. Now for the Pirates Lair!
9. When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold
10. Away, away, my heart's on fire
11. All is prepared
12. Stay, Fred'ric stay!
13. Ah, leave me not to pine alone and desolate
14. Oh, here is love and here is truth
15. No, I'll be brave
16. Sergeant approach (Dialogue)
17. When a felon's not engaged in his employment
18. A rollicking band of pirates we
19. With Cat-Like Tread
20. Hush! Hush! Not a word
21. Sighing softly to the river
22. Now What Is This, and What Is That
23. We triumph now
24. Away with them, and place them at the bar
25. Poor wand'ring ones, though ye have surely straye

Princess Ida or Castle Adamant (Version without dialogue) (Act One and Two)

1. Overture
2. I Search throughout the panorama
3. Now hearken to my strict command
4. Today we meet...Ida was a twelve-month old
5. From the distant panorama...We are warriors three
6. If you give me your attention
7. P'raps if you address the lady most politely
8. Towards the empyrean heights
9. Mighty maiden with a mission
10. Minerva...Oh, goddess wise
11. Gently, gently, evidently
12. I am a maiden, cold and stately
13. The world is but a broken toy
14. A lady fair, of lineage high
15. The woman of the wisest wit
16. Now would you like to rule the roost
17. Merrily ring the luncheon bell
18. Would you know the kind of maid
19. Oh, joy! Our chief is sav'd
20. We may remark, tho' nothing can dismay us

Princess Ida or Castle Adamant (Version without dialogue) (Act Three), Pineapple Poll (arr. Mackerras)

1. Death to the invader
2. I built upon a rock
3. Whene'er I spoke sarcastic joke
4. When anger spreads his wing
5. This helmet I suppose
6. This is our duty plain
7. With joy abiding
8. Opening Dance
9. Poll's solo and Pas de deux
10. Belaye's solo
11. Pas de trois
12. Finale
13. Poll's solo - Jasper's solo (Intermezzo)
14. Belayes's solo and Sailors' Drill
15. Poll's solo
16. Entry of Belaye with Blanche as Bride
17. Reconciliation
18. Grand Finale

Ruddigore or The Witch's Curse (Without dialogue)

1. Overture
2. Fair is rose as bright as May day
3. Sir Rupert Murgatroyd, his leisure and his riches
4. If somebody there chanced to be
5. I know a youth who loves a little maid
6. From the briny sea...I shipp'd, d'ye see
7. Hornpipe
8. My boy, you may take it from me
9. The battle's roar is over
10. In sailing o'er life's ocean wide
11. Cheerily carols the lark...To a garden full ... fposies
12. Welcome, gentry
13. Oh why am I moody and sad?
14. You understand? I think I do
15. Hail the bride of seventeen summers
16. Hold, bride and bridegroom

Ruddigore or The Witch's Curse (Without dialogue)

1. Overture, Original version
2. I once was as meek as a newborn lamb
3. Happily coupled are we
4. In bygone days I had thy love
5. Painted emblems of a race
6. When the night wind howls
7. He yields! He yields!
8. I once was a very abandon'd person
9. My eyes are fully open to my awful situation
10. There grew a little flower
11. Oh, happy the lily when kiss'd by the bee
12. Overture
13. We sounded the trumpet
14. Stay, Bouncer, stay!
15. Hush'd is the bacon on the grid
16. My master is punctual always in business
17. Who are you, sir?
18. The buttercup dwells on the lowly mead
19. Not long ago...Finale

The Sorcerer (Version without dialogue)

1. Overture
2. Ring forth, ye bells
3. Constance, my daughter
4. When he is here, I sigh with pleasure
5. The air is charged with amatory numbers
6. Time was, when love and I were well acquainted
7. Sir Marmaduke...Minuet
8. With heart and voice
9. My kindly friends...Oh, happy young heart
10. My child, I join in these congratulations
11. With heart and with voice
12. Welcome joy! adieu to sadness!
13. All is prepar'd for sealing and for sighing
14. Love feeds on many kinds of food
15. My name is John Wellington Wells
16. Sprites of earth and air
17. Now to the banquet we press

The Sorcerer (Version without dialogue) (Act Two)

1. 'Tis twelve, I think
2. Dear friends, take pity on my lot
3. Thou hast the pow'r....It is not love
4. I rejoice that it's decided
5. Oh, I have wrought much evil with my spells...
6. Alexis! Doubt me not...The fearful deed is done
7. Oh, my voice is sad and low
8. Oh, joyous boon
9. Prepare for sad surprises
10. Or he or I must die
11. Introduction
12. The British Public here - you see
13. I loved her fondly
14. And now let's go back to where we were...Ah maiden fair
15. Where is he?
16. Once more the face I loved so well
17. Help! Ah Help!
18. Ho-guards! Minions!
19. Ladies and Gentlemen!
20. We gather from what you have said
21. Where is my daughter?
22. I'm a simple little child
23. My Father!
24. Finale: What do I see in this disguise

Utopia Limited (Comic opera in two acts) (Act One)

1. Imperial March
2. Introduction
3. In lazy langour (Phylla, Chorus)
4. O make way for the Wise Men ! (Chorus)
5. In every mental lore (Scaphio, Phantis, Chorus)
6. Let all your doubts take wing (Scaphio, Phantis)
7. Quaff the nectar (Chorus)
8. A king of autocratic power we (King, Chorus)
9. Altho' of native maids the cream (Nekaya, Kalyba)
10. Bold-fac'd ranger (Lady Sophy, King)
11. First you're born (King, Scaphio, Phantis)
12. Subjected to your heavenly gaze
13. Oh maiden rich in Girton lore (Chorus, Zara... Cpt...
14. Ah! gallant solduer, brave and true
15. It's understood, I think (Captain, Zara, Saphio...
16. Oh admirable art! (Zara, Captain Fitzbattleaxe)
17. Altho' your royal summons to appear (Finale, A. 1)
18. A Company Promoter this, with special education

Utopia Limited (Comic opera in two acts) (Act Two)

1. Oh, Zara... A tenor, all singers above (Cpt.)
2. Words of love too loudly spoken (Zara, Cpt.)
3. Society has quite forsaken all (King, Chorus)
4. Entrance of Court
5. Drawing room music
6. This ceremonial...Eagle high... (King, Chorus)
7. With fury deep we burn (Scaphio, Phantis)
8. If you think that when...(King, Scaphio, Phantis)
9. With wily brain.... (Tarara, Phantis, Scaphio)
10. A wonderful joy our eyes to bless (Goldbury)
11. Then I may sing and play?
12. Oh, would some demon power... When a maid (Sophy)
13. Ah, Lady Sophy (King, Lady Sophy)
14. Oh rapture unrestrained (King, Lady Sophy)
15. Tarantella...Upon our sea-girt land (Chorus)
16. There's a little group of isles beyond the wave
17. Overture Macbeth
18. Victoria and Merrie England
19. Overture: Marmion

The Yeomen of the Guard (Version without dialogue) (Act One)

1. Overture
2. "When maiden loves"
3. "Tower warders under orders"
4. When our gallant Norman foes
5. "Alas! I waver to and fro"
6. "Is life a boon?"
7. "Here's a man of jollity"
8. I have a song to sing, oh!
9. "How say you, maiden"
10. "I've jibe and joke"
11. "'Tis done! I am a bride!"
12. "Were I thy bride"
13. "Oh, Sergeant Meryll" - "Ye Tower Warders", "Leonard Meryll!", "Forbear, my friends", "Didst thou not", "Leonard!", "As escort for the prisoner"

The Yeomen of the Guard (Version without dialogue) (Act Two)

1. "Night has spread her pall once more"
2. "Oh! a private buffoon"
3. "Hereupon we're both agreed"
4. "Free from his fetters grim"
5. "Strange adventure!"
6. "Hark! What was that, sir?"-"Who fired that shot?"-"Like a ghost his vigil keeping..."-"The river must be dragged"
7. "A man who would woo a fair maid"
8. "When a wooer goes a-wooing"
9. "Rapture, rapture!"
10. "Comes the pretty young bride"- "'Tis said to you"-"Hold, pretty one!"
11. Hark the Hour of Ten is Sounding
12. When first my old, old love I knew
13. When I good friends was called to the Bar
14. Where Is The Plaintiff?
15. May it please you my Lud!
16. Oh, Gentlemen Listen I Pray
17. A nice dilemma
18. I Love him

Songs And Snatched (First International CD Release)

1. From The Sunny Spanish Shore
2. There was a time, a time for ever gone
3. To help unhappy commoners
4. Then One Of Us Will Be A Queen
5. Love Unrequited (Nightmare Song)
6. None shall part us from each other
7. If You Go In You're Sure To Win
8. When I Went To The Bar (Said I To Myself, Said I)
9. Though P'r'aps I May Incur Your Blame
10. My Boy, You May Take It From Me
11. I Know A Youth Who Loves A Little Maid
12. There grew a little flower
13. The battle's roar is over
14. In Sailing O'er Life's Ocean Wide
15. Hereupon we're both agreed
16. I've jibe and joke
17. When A Wooer Goes A-Wooing
18. A Man Who Would Woo A Fair Maid

1. The Gondoliers - From the sunny Spanish shore
2. The Gondoliers - There was a time
3. The Gondoliers - To help unhappy commoners
4. The Gondoliers - Then one of us will be a Queen
5. Iolanthe - Love unrequited (Nightmare song)
6. Iolanthe - None shall part us
7. Iolanthe - If you go in, you're sure to win
8. Iolanthe - When I went to the bar
9. Iolanthe - Though p'r'aps I may incur your blame
10. Ruddigore - My boy you may take it from me
11. Ruddigore - I know a youth
12. Ruddigore - There grew a little flower
13. Ruddigore - The battle's roar is over
14. Ruddigore - In sailing o'er life's ocean wide
15. The Yeoman of the Guard - Hereupon we're both agreed
16. The Yeoman of the Guard - I've jibe and joke
17. The Yeoman of the Guard - When a wooer goes a-wooing
18. The Yeoman of the Guard - A man who would woo a fair maid
19. The Mikado - A wand'ring Minstrel I
20. The Mikado - Three Little Maids from school are we
21. The Mikado - As someday it may happen
22. The Mikado - The flowers that bloom in the spring
23. The Mikado - On a tree by a river a little Tom-Tit