Patience (opera) - Musical Numbers

Musical Numbers

• Overture (includes "Turn, oh turn, in this direction", "So go to him and say to him", and "Oh list while we a love confess"). The Overture was orchestrated by Eugen d'Albert, who was then a pupil of Sullivan's.

Act I

• 1. "Twenty love-sick maidens we" (Angela, Ella and Chorus of Maidens)
• 2. "Still brooding on their mad infatuation" (Patience, Saphir, Angela, and Chorus)
• 2a. "I cannot tell what this love may be" (Patience and Chorus)
• 2b. "Twenty love-sick maidens we" (Chorus of Maidens - Exit)
• 3. "The soldiers of our Queen" (Chorus of Dragoons)
• 3a. "If you want a receipt for that popular mystery" (Colonel and Chorus)1
• 4. "In a doleful train two and two we walk" (Angela, Ella, Saphir, Bunthorne, and Chorus of Maidens and Dragoons)
• 4a. "Twenty love-sick maidens we" (Chorus of Maidens - Exit)
• 5. "When I first put this uniform on" (Colonel and Chorus of Dragoons)
• 6. "Am I alone and unobserved?" (Bunthorne)
• 7. "Long years ago, fourteen maybe" (Patience and Angela)
• 8. "Prithee, pretty maiden" (Patience and Grosvenor)
• 8a. "Though to marry you would very selfish be" (Patience and Grosvenor)
• 9. "Let the merry cymbals sound" (Ensemble)

1 This was originally followed by a song for the Duke, "Though men of rank may useless seem." The orchestration survives in Sullivan's autograph score, but without a vocal line. There have been several attempts at a reconstruction, including one by David Russell Hulme that was included on the 1994 new D'Oyly Carte Opera Company recording.

Act II

• 10. "On such eyes as maidens cherish" (Chorus of Maidens)
• 11. "Sad is that woman's lot" (Jane)
• 12. "Turn, oh turn, in this direction" (Chorus of Maidens)
• 13. "A magnet hung in a hardware shop" (Grosvenor and Chorus of Maidens)
• 14. "Love is a plaintive song" (Patience)
• 15. "So go to him, and say to him" (Jane and Bunthorne)
• 16. "It's clear that mediaeval art" (Duke, Major, and Colonel)
• 17. "If Saphir I choose to marry" (Angela, Saphir, Duke, Major, and Colonel)
• 18. "When I go out of door" (Bunthorne and Grosvenor)
• 19. "I'm a Waterloo House young man" (Grosvenor and Chorus of Maidens)
• 20. "After much debate internal" (Ensemble)

Note on topical references: Songs and dialogue in Patience contain many topical references to persons and events of public interest in 1881. In particular, the Colonel's song, Act I, item 3a above, is almost entirely composed of such references. The Wikisource text of the opera contains links explaining these references.