Ruddigore (Sullivan, Arthur)

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Performer Pages Really Authentic Gilbert and Sullivan Performance Trust (company)
Dunedin Symphony Orchestra (orchestra)
Hilary Norris (stage director)
Brian Johnston (choreographer)
Michael Andrewes (conductor/musical director)
Sydney Manowitz (concertmaster)
Michael Gray (Robin Oakapple)
Frances Moore (Rose Maybud)
Justin Freind (Richard Dauntless)
Geoff Patton (Sir Despard Murgatroyd)
Claire Barton (Mad Margaret)
Roger Wilson (Sir Roderic Murgatroyd)
Sandra Shaw Bennett (Dame Hannah)
Laura Harvey (Zorah)
Glenda Wallace (Ruth)
Bruce McMillan (Old Adam)
Publisher Info. Really Authentic Gilbert and Sullivan Performance Trust, 2008.
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30 more: Fair is Rose • Sir Rupert Murgatroyd • If somebody there chanced to be • I know a youth • From the briny sea • My boy, you may take it from me • If well his suit has sped • In sailing o'er life's ocean wide • Cheerily carols the lark • Welcome, gentry • Oh, why am I moody and sad? • You understand? I think I do • Hail the bride of seventeen summers • When the buds are blossoming • Gavotte • Hold, bride and bridegroom, ere you wed each other • As pure and blameless peasant • Within this breast there beats a heart • Farewell! Thou hadst my heart • Oh, happy the lily • I once was as meek as a new-born lamb • Happily coupled are we • In bygone days I had thy love • Painted emblems of a race • When the night wind howls • He yields, he yields • I once was a very abandoned person • My eyes are fully open • There grew a little flower • For happy the lily (reprise)

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Performer Pages Isidore Godfrey (Conductor)
Martyn Green (Robin Oakapple/Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd)
Leonard Osborn (Richard Dauntless)
Richard Watson (Sir Despard Murgatroyd)
L. Radley Flynn (Old Adam)
Margaret Mitchell (Rose Maybud)
Ann Drummond-Grant (Mad Margaret)
Ella Halman (Dame Hannah)
Deidree Thurlow (Zorah)
Darrell Fancourt (Sir Roderic Murgatroyd)
Publisher Info. Decca, No.LK4027/8, 1950.
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Misc. Notes Recorded in London, July 21 and August 24, 1950
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28 more: Fair is Rose • Sir Rupert Murgatroyd • If somebody there chanced to be • I know a youth who loves a little maid • From the briny sea • My boy, you may take it from me • If well his suit has sped • In sailing o'er life's ocean wide • Cheerily carols the lark • Welcome, gentry • Oh, why am I moody and sad? • You understand? I think I do • Hail the bride of seventeen summers • When the buds are blossoming • Gavotte • As pure and blameless peasant • Within this breast there beats a heart • Oh, happy the lily • I once was as meek as a new-born lamb • Happily coupled are we • In bygone days I had thy love • Painted emblems of a race • When the night wind howls • He yields! He answers to our call! • I once was a very abandoned person • My eyes are fully open • There grew a little flower • Oh, happy the lily (reprise)

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Performer Pages Malcolm Sargent (Conductor)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (Company)
George Baker (Robin Oakapple/Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd)
Derek Oldham (Richard Dauntless)
Sydney Granville (Sir Despard Murgatroyd)
Stuart Robertson (Old Adam)
Muriel Dickson (Rose Maybud)
Nellie Briercliffe (Mad Margaret)
Dorothy Gill (Dame Hannah)
Alice Moxon (Zorah)
Darrell Fancourt (Sir Roderic Murgatroyd)
Publisher Info. His Master's Voice, No.DB4005/13, 1931.
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Misc. Notes Recorded September 9 to November 9, 1931, at Kingsway Hall, London
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17 more: Fair is Rose - Sir Rupert Murgatroyd • If somebody there chanced to be • I know a youth • From the briny esa - I shipped d'ye see - Hornpipe • My boy, you may take it from me - The battle's roar is over • If well his suit has sped - In sailing o'er life's ocean wide • Cheerily carols the lark • Welcome, gentry - O, why am I moody and sad? • You understand? - Hail the bride of seventeen summers • When the buds are blossoming • hold, bride and bridegroom • Farewell! Thou hadst my heart • I once was as meek as a new-born lamb - Happily coupled are we • In bygone days I had thy love - Painted emblems of a race • When the night wind howls - He yields • I was once a very abandoned person - My eyes are fully open • There grew a little flower

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Performer Pages Harry Norris (Conductor)
Light Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
George Baker (Robin Oakapple/Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd)
Derek Oldham (Richard Dauntless)
Leo Sheffield (Sir Despard Murgatroyd)
Edward Halland (Old Adam)
Elsie Griffin (Rose Maybud/Zorah)
Eileen Sharp (Mad Margaret)
Bertha Lewis (Dame Hannah)
Darrell Fancourt (Sir Roderic Murgatroyd)
Publisher Info. His Master's Voice, No.D878/86, 1924.
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Misc. Notes Recorded in London, May 22 to June 30, 1924.
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Arranger Geoffrey Toye (1889-1942), overture and revisions
Editor Tom McCanna
Publisher. Info. Miami: Edwin F. Kalmus, 1987.
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Publisher. Info. Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, n.d.
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Publisher. Info. London: Chappell / D'Oyly Carte Opera Co., n.d.(ca.1920).
Reprinted New York: E.F. Kalmus, n.d.(1933–70). Catalog A3316.
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Arranger George Lowell Tracy (1855-1921), piano reduction
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Arranger George Lowell Tracy (1855-1921), piano reduction
Publisher. Info. London: Chappell & Co., n.d.[1887]. Plate 18311.
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Editor Edmond W. Rickett
Publisher. Info. New York: Schirmer, 1953. Plate 42202.
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For Male Chorus and 2 Pianos (Davison)

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My Eyes Are Fully Open (Act II, Trio)

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General Information

Work Title Ruddigore, or The Witch's Curse
Alternative. Title Operetta in Two Acts
Composer Sullivan, Arthur
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IAS 67
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 2 acts:
Overture
  • Act I
1. "Fair is Rose" (Chorus of Bridesmaids)
2. "Sir Rupert Murgatroyd" (Hannah and Chorus)
3. "If somebody there chanced to be" (Rose)
4. "I know a youth" (Rose and Robin)
5. "From the briny sea" (Chorus of Bridesmaids)
6. "I shipp'd, d'ye see, in a revenue sloop" (Richard and Chorus)
6a. Hornpipe
7. "My boy, you may take it from me" (Robin and Richard)
8. "The battle's roar is over" (Rose and Richard)
9. "If well his suit has sped" (Chorus of Bridesmaids)
10. "In sailing o'er life's ocean wide" (Rose, Richard, and Robin)
11. "Cheerily carols the lark" (Margaret)
12. "Welcome, gentry" (Double Chorus)
13. "Oh, why am I moody and sad?" (Sir Despard and Chorus)
14. "You understand? I think I do" (Richard and Sir Despard)
15. Finale Act I
"Hail the bride of seventeen summers" (Ensemble)
Madrigal, "When the buds are blossoming" (Ensemble)
"When I'm a bad Bart, I will tell taradiddles!" (Robin and Chorus)
"Oh, happy the lily" (Ensemble)
  • Act II
16. "I once was as meek" (Sir Ruthven and Adam)
17. "Happily coupled are we" (Rose and Richard)
18. "In bygone days" (Rose with Chorus of Bridesmaids)
19. "Painted emblems of a race" (Sir Ruthven, Sir Roderic, and Chorus of Ancestors)
20. "When the night wind howls" (Sir Roderic and Chorus)
21. "He yields, he yields" (Chorus)
22. "Away, remorse!" ... "For thirty-five years I've been sober and wary" (Robin)
23. "I once was a very abandoned person" (Margaret and Despard)
24. "My eyes are fully open" (Margaret, Sir Ruthven, and Despard)
25. "Melodrame"
26. "There grew a little flower" (Hannah with Sir Roderic)
27. Finale Act II (Ensemble)
"When a man has been a naughty baronet"
"For happy the lily" (reprise) (Ensemble)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1886-87
First Performance. 1887-01-22 — London: Savoy Theatre
First Publication. 1887 – London: Chappell & Co.
Librettist William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)
Language English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation voices, mixed chorus (SATB), orchestra
InstrDetail
Mortals
Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd Disguised as Robin Oakapple, a Young Farmer (comic baritone)
Richard Dauntless His Foster-Brother – A Man-o'-war's-man (tenor)
Sir Despard Murgatroyd of Ruddigore, A Wicked Baronet (bass-baritone or baritone)
Old Adam Goodheart Robin's Faithful Servant (bass)
Rose Maybud A Village Maiden (soprano)
Mad Margaret (mezzo-soprano)
Dame Hannah Rose's Aunt (contralto)
Zorah Professional Bridesmaid (soprano)
Ruth Professional Bridesmaid (speaking/chorus)

Ghosts

Sir Rupert Murgatroyd (The First Baronet)
Sir Jasper Murgatroyd (The Third Baronet)
Sir Lionel Murgatroyd (The Sixth Baronet)
Sir Conrad Murgatroyd (The Twelfth Baronet)
Sir Desmond Murgatroyd (The Sixteenth Baronet)
Sir Gilbert Murgatroyd (The Eighteenth Baronet)
Sir Mervyn Murgatroyd (The Twentieth Baronet)
Sir Roderic Murgatroyd (The Twenty-first Baronet) (bass-baritone)

Mixed Chorus (SATB)

Mortals: Chorus of Professional Bridesmaids, Villagers, Bucks, Blades
Ghosts: Chorus of Ancestors

Orchestra

2 flutes (2nd also piccolo), oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon
2 horns, 2 cornets, 2 trombones
timpani, triangle, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, gong, strings
Related Works Pieces based on 'Ruddigore'
Discography Gilbert & Sullivan Discography
External Links Wikipedia article
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