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1 online resource (1 sound file) |
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Highlights from The Mikado. If you want to know who we are (3:01) ; Behold the Lord High Executioner! (2:39) ; Three little maids from school are we (1:32) ; Braid the raven hair (3:25) ; The flowers that bloom in the spring (1:36) ; On a tree by a river, a little tom-tit sang, "Willow, tit-willow" (2:30) ; For he's gone and married Yum-Yum (1:53) (Anthony Rolfe Johnson ; Richard Suart ; Richard van Allan ; Nicholas Folwell ; Marie McLaughlin ; Anne Howells ; Janice Watson) -- From H.M.S. Pinafore. We sail the ocean blue (2:02) ; I'm called Little Buttercup (2:11) ; My gallant crew (2:09) ; When I was a lad (2:38) ; Things are seldom what they seem (2:54) ; Never mind the why and wherefore (2:28) (Richard Suart ; Thomas Allen ; Rebecca Evans ; Felicity Palmer) -- From The pirates of Penzance. Climbing over rocky mountain (3:28) ; Poor wand'ring one (2:39) ; How beautifully blue the sky (1:55) ; I am the very model of a modern Major-General (2:51) ; When the foeman bares his steel (4:36) ; Ah, leave me not to pine (from Stay, Frederic, stay!) (3:53) ; With cat-like tread (2:38) (John Mark Ainsley ; Rebecca Evans ; Richard van Allan ; Richard Suart ; Julie Gossage ; Nicholas Folwell) -- From The yeomen of the Guard. Is life a boon? (2:06) ; I have a song to sing, O! (3:45) ; Were I thy bride (1:55) ; Oh, a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon (2:49) ; When a wooer goes a-wooing (2:46) (Neill Archer ; Alwyn Mellor ; Richard Suart ; Pamela Helen Stephen) -- From Trial by jury. When I, good friends, was called to the bar (2:44) ; A nice dilemma we have here (3:19) ; Oh, joy unbounded (1:49) (Richard Suart ; Rebecca Evans ; Barry Banks ; Eric Garrett ; Peter Savidge ; Gareth Rhys Davies) |
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Opera excerpts |
Performer |
Vocal soloists ; orchestra and chorus of the Welsh National Opera ; Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor |
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Recorded 1991-1995 Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, Wales |
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Hard copy version record |
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Operas -- Excerpts.
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Excerpts.
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Streaming audio
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Author |
Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911, librettist.
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Mackerras, Charles, 1925-2010, conductor.
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Container of (work): Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900.
Mikado. Selections.
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Container of (work): Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900.
Pirates of Penzance. Selections.
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Container of (work): Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900.
H.M.S. Pinafore. Selections.
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Container of (work): Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900.
Yeomen of the Guard. Selections.
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Container of (work): Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900.
Trial by jury. Selections
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Welsh National Opera. Chorus, singer.
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Welsh National Opera. Orchestra, instrumentalist.
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