Musical Numbers (English Adaptation)
- Overture
- Act I — Festival Hall in Prince Joachim's Castle at Flausenthurn.
- No. 1 — Opening Chorus — "Our hearts are filled with glee and festive loyalty, our Princess weds today!"
- No. 2 — Song — Friedericke, Sigismund and Chorus — "A maiden whom Cupid had not cajoled, of icy mold, distrait and cold"
- No. 3 — Entrance March and Hymn — "The trumpets blare! Let's welcome the happy pair!"
- No. 4 — Song — Niki — "Some men are born to rule the land, and purple robes they don them"
- No. 4a — Exit March
- No. 5 — Duet — Helene and Friedericke — "Our vows exchanged we're plighted, forever linked by Fate"
- No. 6 — Terzette — Friedericke, Niki and Joachim — "What a misfortune, woeful disgrace! It is too late our steps to retrace"
- No. 7 — Duet — Niki and Montschi — "The soft summer twilight was fading, I sat in the garden alone"
- No. 8 — Duet and Finale Act I — "My dearest love, why leave me all alone! For you I wait with anxious heart and true"
- Act II — Garden Salon.
- No. 9 — March and Girls' Chorus — "Come, love, don't be shy, kissing time is nigh"
- No. 10 — Song — Franzi and Girls — "You may search the world around, nowhere will you find melody and beauty both"
- No. 11 — Duet — Niki and Franzi — "I beg you believe, sweetest maiden, that the love your charms inspire"
- No. 12 — Terzett — Helene, Franzi and Friedericke — "I am seeking for information that you, I'm sure, can quickly supply"
- No. 13 — Buffo-Duet — Lothar and Franzi — "Sweet music, so the poets say, maintains a universal sway" (4 verses)
- No. 14 — Finale Act II — "It is shameful! Sad mishap! Your father, caught in a trap"
- Act III — Drawing Room in the Castle at Flausenthurn.
- No. 15 — Entr'acte Gavotte
- No. 16 — Trio — Niki, Lothar and Joachim — "Oh, these bores! I wish they'd leave me"
- No. 17 — Duettino — Friedericke and Franzi — "I am an humble lassie / I am a courtly dame"
- No. 18 — Finale Act III — Niki and Helene — "Music at night gives me thrills of delight, sweet visions of bliss realizing"
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