Musical numbers Patience (opera)

...and here are! (left right: dow, workman , rené, 1907)



1. twenty love-sick maidens (angela, ella , chorus of maidens)
2. still brooding on mad infatuation (patience, saphir, angela, , chorus)
2a. cannot tell love may (patience , chorus)
2b. twenty love-sick maidens (chorus of maidens - exit)
3. soldiers of our queen (chorus of dragoons)
3a. if want receipt popular mystery (colonel , chorus)
4. in doleful train 2 , 2 walk (angela, ella, saphir, bunthorne, , chorus of maidens , dragoons)
4a. twenty love-sick maidens (chorus of maidens - exit)
5. when first put uniform on (colonel , chorus of dragoons)
6. alone , unobserved? (bunthorne)
7. long years ago, fourteen maybe (patience , angela)
8. prithee, pretty maiden (patience , grosvenor)
8a. though marry selfish (patience , grosvenor)
9. let merry cymbals sound (ensemble)

followed song duke, though men of rank may useless seem. orchestration survives in sullivan s autograph score, without vocal line. there have been several attempts @ reconstruction, including 1 david russell hulme included on 1994 new d oyly carte opera company recording.

...sing boo (lytton , lewis, 1919)



act ii


10. on such eyes maidens cherish (chorus of maidens)
11. sad woman s lot (jane)
12. turn, oh turn, in direction (chorus of maidens)
13. magnet hung in hardware shop (grosvenor , chorus of maidens)
14. love plaintive song (patience)
15. go him, , him (jane , bunthorne)
16. s clear mediaeval art (duke, major, , colonel)
17. if saphir choose marry (angela, saphir, duke, major, , colonel)
18. when go out of door (bunthorne , grosvenor)
19. m waterloo house young man (grosvenor , chorus of maidens)
20. after debate internal (ensemble)

note on topical references:

songs , dialogue in patience contain many topical references persons , events of public interest in 1881. in particular, colonel s song, act i, item 3a above, entirely composed of such references. wikisource text of opera contains links explaining these references.