HIGHLIGHTS FROM GILBERT AND SULLIVAN 2 - Heroes and heroines

This is the second playlist of a number, bringing together highlights from a complete cycle of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, staged annually in chronological order in Dunedin, New Zealand between 2002 and 2012 by the Really Authentic Gilbert and Sullivan Performance Trust (RAGSPT).
Medley of Heroes and heroines
1. 00:26 Plaintiff, Trial By Jury (2012 production): Fairest days are sun and shade
2. 00:37 Defendant, Trial By Jury (2012): Ah, consider the moral, I pray
3. 00:52 Aline, The Sorcerer (2002): Oh, happy young heart!
4. 01:19 Alexis, The Sorcerer (2002): To love for money all the world is prone
5. 01:38 Josephine, H.M.S. Pinafore (2003): Heavy the sorrow that bows the head
6. 02:19 Ralph Rackstraw, H.M.S. Pinafore (2003): I know the value of a kindly chorus
7. 02:41 Frederic, The Pirates of Penzance (2003): Oh, is there not one maiden breast
8. 03:57 Mabel, The Pirates of Penzance (2003): Poor wandering one
9. 04:35 Patience, Patience (2004): I cannot tell what this love may be
10. 05:16 Archibald Grosvenor, Patience (2004): But who is this .../ I am a broken-hearted troubadour
11. 06:33 Iolanthe/ Strephon, Iolanthe (2005): My Lords, it may not be/ 'Tis I, young Strephon!
12. 07:25 Princess Ida/ Prince Hilarion, Princess Ida (2006): Oh! joy, our chief is saved/ Stand forth ye three/ Whom thou hath chained must wear his chain
13. 10:53 Yum-Yum, The Mikado (2007): The sun, whose rays are all ablaze
14. 12:18 Nanki-Poo, The Mikado (2007): A wandering minstrel I - a thing of shreds and patches
15. 14:03 Rose Maybud, Ruddygore (2008): If somebody there chanced to be
16. 15:23 Robin Oakapple, Ruddygore (2008): Having been a wicked baronet a week
17. 15:58 Elsie Maynard, The Yeomen of the Guard (2009): Ere half an hour has rung, a widow I!
18. 17:36 Colonel Fairfax, The Yeomen of the Guard (2009): Free, yet in fetters held till his last hour
19. 19:00 Gianetta/ Marco/ Tessa/ Giuseppe, The Gondoliers (2010): Viva! His argument is strong!/ Then one of us will be a Queen
20. 22:12 Princess Zara, Utopia (Limited) (2011): When Britain sounds the trump of war
21. 23:21 Captain Fitzbattleaxe, Utopia (Limited) (2011): A tenor, all singers above
22. 24:18 Julia Jellicoe/ Ernest Dummkopf, The Grand Duke (2012): If the light of love's lingering ember has faded in gloom
A few lovers' duets
23. 26:39 The Sorcerer (2002): Oh love, true love
24. 29:15 H.M.S. Pinafore (2003): Refrain, audacious tar
25. 33:12 Patience (2004): Prithee, pretty maiden
26. 35:52 Iolanthe (2005): If we're weak enough to tarry
27. 37:32 Princess Ida (2006): With joy abiding
28. 38:42 Ruddygore (2008): The battle's roar is over, O my love!
29. 41:37 The Gondoliers (2010): O rapture, when alone together
30. 43:59 Utopia (Limited) (2011): Words of love too loudly spoken
The Southern Sinfonia (as pit orchestra) accompanies all fully-staged productions.
The videos of all fully-staged productions are available on this KZbin channel: RAGSPT Revisited.
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