The masters of English operetta, lyricist/librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan defined the genre and influenced all musical theatre after them. This comprehensive collection in our acclaimed World's Great Classical Music series presents 67 selections from 13 of their collaborations, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Features arias, duets and ensembles all newly engraved in their original keys for voice and piano, a biography of Gilbert & Sullivan, a plot synopsis for each show, and Gilbert's own illustrations of characters.
Oh, Foolish Fay (IOLANTHE) Oh, Goddess Wise (PRINCESS IDA) So Ends My Dream (THE GRAND DUKE) Happy Young Heart (THE SORCERER) A Simple Sailor Lowly Born (HMS Pinafore) Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well from HMS PINAFORE (A. Sullivan) If Somebody There Chanced to Be (RUDDIGORE) Poor Wand'ring One (THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE) I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General (THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE) Willow, Tit-Willow (THE MIKADO) As Some Day It May Happen (THE MIKADO) I've Jibe and Joke (THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD) If You Give Me Your Attention (PRINCESS IDA) My Boy, You May Take It from Me (RUDDIGORE) Time Was, When Love and I (THE SORCERER) When All Night Long a Chap Remains (IOLANTHE) No Possible Doubt Whatever (THE GONDOLIERS) Policeman's Song, The from THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE (Sullivan) When I Was a Lad I Served a Term (HMS PINAFORE) My Name Is John Wellington Wells (THE SORCERER) Oh, Gentleman, Listen, I Pray (TRIAL BY JURY) I am the Monarch of the Sea (HMS PINAFORE) He Is an Englishman (HMS PINAFORE) With Cat-Like Tread, Upon Our Prey We Steal (THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE) When I First Put This Uniform On (PATIENCE) Am I Alone and Unobserved? (PATIENCE) Prithee, Pretty Maiden (PATIENCE) The Law is the True Embodiment (IOLANTHE) When I Went to the Bar as a Very Young Man (IOLANTHE) When Britain Really Ruled the Waves (IOLANTHE) Love, Unrequited, Robs Me of My Rest (IOLANTHE) Three Little Maids from School Are We (THE MIKADO) Miya-Sama (THE MIKADO) Silver'd Is the Raven Hair (PATIENCE) When A Merry Maiden Marries (THE GONDOLIERS) When Maiden Loves, She Sits and Sighs (THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD) Were I Thy Bride (THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD) On The Day When I Was Wedded (THE GONDOLIERS) Alone, and Yet Alive (THE MIKADO) To a Garden Full of Posies (RUDDIGORE) When Frederic Was a Little Lad (THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE) When First My Old, Old Love I Knew (TRIAL BY JURY) Free From His Fetters Grim (THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD) A Wand'ring Minstrel I (THE MIKADO) Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes (THE GONDOLIERS) Is Life A Boon? (THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD) Rising Early In the Morning (THE GONDOLIERS) Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast (THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE) Fair Moon, to Thee I Sing (HMS PINAFORE) A Maiden Fair To See (HMS PINAFORE) We Sail The Ocean Blue (H.M.S. PINAFORE) Twenty Love-Sick Maidens (PATIENCE) The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze from The MIKADO (Sullivan) Love Is a Plaintive Song from PATIENCE (A. Sullivan) I'm Called Little Buttercup (HMS PINAFORE) I Am a Pirate King from The Pirates of Penzance (Sullivan) Mikado's Song, The (THE MIKADO) The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring (THE MIKADO) There Is Beauty in the Bellow of the Beast (THE MIKADO) Henceforth All the Crimes (RUDDIGORE) I Have a Song to Sing, O! from (THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD) Oh! A Private Buffoon Is a Light-Hearted Loon (THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD) The Duke of Plaza-Toro (THE GONDOLIERS) There Lived a King (THE GONDOLIERS) In Ev'ry Mental Lore (UTOPIA LIMITED)