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William S. Gilbert

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Gilbert was British. His full name was William Schwenk Gilbert. He wrote many operettas with Arthur Sullivan. Gilbert wrote the words, Sulllivan the music. They continue to be popular even after >150 yrs of their deaths.

Top songs

  1. Act I: From the briny sea - Ballad: I shipped d'ye see (Chorus, Richard)
  2. Act I: Fair is Rose as bright May day (Chorus, Zorah)
  3. Act I: You understand? I think I do (Sir Despard and Richard)
  4. I am so proud
  5. When I was a lad
  6. Act 1: In enterprise of marital kind
  7. Act 2: Of happiness the very pith
  8. As some day it may happen
  9. Over the bright sea / Sir Joseph's barge is seen
  10. Act I: With heart and with voice (Chorus)
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  1. Act 2: There lived a king
  2. Act 1: From the sunny Spanish shore
  3. Carefully on tiptoe stealing
  4. A British Tar
  5. The sun whose rays are all ablaze
  6. Act 2: Chorus: I'm Waterloo House young man
  7. We sail the ocean blue
  8. Act 1: Good morrow pretty maids
  9. Act I - I am the very model of a modern Major-General (Major-General)
  10. Act 1: Now Marco dear my wishes hear
  11. Fair moon, to thee I sing
  12. Act 2: Take a pair of sparkling eyes
  13. Act I: Gavotte (Orchestra)
  14. A more humane Mikado / My object all sublime
  15. Act I: Welcome joy! Adieu to sadness (Sir Marmaduke, Lady Sangazure)
  16. Act I: Hornpipe (Orchestra)
  17. Pretty daughter of mine / He is a Englishman
  18. Act II: In bygone days I had thy love (Rose, Sir Ruthven, Richard, Chorus)
  19. Act I: When the bands are blossoming (Rose, Hannah, Ensemble)
  20. Act I: Oh why am I moody and sad? (Sir Despard)
  21. Act 1: Ensemble: Fare thee well, attractive stranger
  22. Braid the raven hair
  23. Kind captain, I've important information
  24. Act 1: Come let's away
  25. Act 1: Recit: Nay, tempt me not; Ballad: Spurn not the nobly born
  26. Act 1: Song: Good morrow, good mother
  27. Act 2: When I go out of doors
  28. Act 1: Overture
  29. Act 2: Here we are, at the risk of our lives / After sailing to this island
  30. Act 1: Song: When I went to the bar
  31. If you want to know who we are
  32. The criminal cried, as he dropped him down
  33. Act 2: Duet: If we're weak enough to tarry
  34. Sorry her lot who loves too well
  35. Act 1: List and learn
  36. Act 1: Kind Sir you cannot have the heart
  37. There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
  38. Act 1: I cannot tell what this love may be
  39. Act 1: When a merry maiden marries
  40. Act 2: Now let the loyal lieges gather round / FINALE
  41. Act 1: Invocation: Iolanthe! From thy dark exile
  42. Appendix: Pineapple Poll: Scene 3: Poll's Solo
  43. Now give three cheers / I am the monarch of the sea
  44. Act 2: Dance a Cachucha
  45. Act 1: If you want a receipt
  46. Things are seldom what they seem
  47. Appendix: Pineapple Poll: Scene 3: Belaye's Solo
  48. Act 2: With ducal pomp
  49. Act I: Love feeds on many kinds of food (Alexis)
  50. A maiden fair to see
  51. Act II - Stay, Frederic, star! (Mabel, Frederic)
  52. Act 1: But bless my heart / QUINTET: Try we life long
  53. Act 1: An Arcadian Landscape between 1700 and 1882: Chorus: Tripping hither, tripping thither
  54. Brightly dawns our wedding day
  55. Act 1: For the merriest fellows are we
  56. Act 2: Here is a case unprecedented!
  57. Act I: Sir Marmaduke (Dr Daly, Alexis)
  58. Act I: The Air is charged; Time was, when love and I were well acquainted (Dr Daly)
  59. Sir, you are sad
  60. Act 1: Recit: My well-loved lord; Solo: Of all the young ladies I know
  61. Act I: My child, join in these congratulations (Lady Sangazure)
  62. Act II - I love him; I smoke like a furnace (Plaintiff, Defendant)
  63. Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
  64. Appendix: Pineapple Poll: Scene 2: Jasper's Solo
  65. So please you sir, we much regret
  66. Act II - Then Frederic, let your escort (Major-General)
  67. Act 1: Replying we sing
  68. Three little maids from school
  69. Act 1: I stole the prince
  70. Act I - Poor wand'ring one (Mabel, Ladies)
  71. Act I - When Frederic was a little lad (Ruth)
  72. Finale, Act II
  73. Act 1: DUET: These was a time
  74. Here's a how-de-do!
  75. A simple sailor lowly born
  76. Gaily Tripping
  77. Act I: In sailing o'er life's ocean wide - My heart says (Chorus, Richard, Robin, Rose, Ensemble)
  78. Act I: Hail the bride of seventeen Summers (Chorus)
  79. Act 1: Chorus: Loudly let the trumpet bray!
  80. Act I: Welcome, gentry, for your entry (Chorus)
  81. Appendix: Pineapple Poll: Scene 1: Opening Dance
  82. Act II: He yields! He answers to our call (Chorus, Sir Ruthven)
  83. Act I: The Air is charged; Time was, when love and I were well acquainted (Dr Daly)
  84. Act 1: Then away we go
  85. Act I: Minuet (Orchestra)
  86. Act II - Now what is this
  87. Act 1: For everyone who feels inclined
  88. Act 2: It may not be
  89. Act II: Oh I have wrought much evil with my spells (Mr Wells, Lady Sangazure)
  90. Never mind the why and wherefore

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