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WEB OPERA

Written by W. S. Gilbert
Music by Arthur Sullivan

Featuring

of Music

and

All the Lyrics and Dialogue

Dramatis Personae

Colonel Calverley		(Officers of the Dragoon Guards)
Major Murgatroyd
Lieut. The Duke of Dunstable

Reginald Bunthorne (a Fleshly Poet)
Archibald Grosvenor (an Idyllic Poet)
Mr. Bunthorne's Solicitor

The Lady Angela	(Rapturous Maidens)
The Lady Saphir
The Lady Ella
The Lady Jane

Patience (a Dairy Maid)

Chorus of Rapturous Maidens and Officers of Dragoon Guards

ACT I. — Exterior of Castle Bunthorne.
ACT II.— A Glade.

Web Opera

Overture

Act 1

No. 1	Chorus of Maidens
	Dialogue
No. 2	Recit. and Song (Patience)
	Dialogue
No. 3	Solo (Colonel and Chorus of Dragoons)
	Dialogue
No. 4	Chorus with Solos (Angela, Ella and Bunthorne)
	Dialogue
No. 5	Song (Colonel)
No. 6	Recit. and Song (Bunthorne)
	Dialogue
No. 7	Duet (Patience and Angela)
No. 8	Duet (Patience and Grosvenor)
	Dialogue
No. 9	Finale

Act II

No. 10	Chorus of Maidens
No. 11	Recit. and Song (Jane)
No. 12	Chorus of Maidens
	Dialogue
No. 13	Song (Grosvenor and Chorus of Maidens)
	Dialogue
No. 14	Song (Patience)
	Dialogue
No. 15	Duet (Jane and Bunthorne)
No. 16	Trio (Duke, Major and Colonel)
	Dialogue
No. 17	Quintette (Saphir, Angela, Duke, Major and Colonel)
	Dialogue
No. 18	Duet (Bunthorne and Grosvenor)
	Dialogue
No. 19	Solo (Grosvenor and Chorus of Maidens)
	Dialogue
No. 20	Finale

The MIDI files for this opera were sequenced by Paul Howarth

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