Ballet Music
Music for the ballet is taken from eleven of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, Cox and Box and the Overture di Ballo, as specified below:
- Scene 1
- Opening Dance – (The Mikado; Trial by Jury; Patience; The Sorcerer; The Gondoliers)
- Poll's Solo and Pas de Deux – (The Gondoliers; Patience)
- Belaye's Solo – (Patience; Cox and Box)
- Pas de trois – (The Mikado; The Pirates of Penzance; Ruddigore)
- Finale – (Patience; The Pirates of Penzance; Ruddigore; Iolanthe)
- Scene 2
- Poll's Solo – (Iolanthe)
- Jasper's Solo – (Princess Ida)
- Scene 3
- Belaye's Solo and Sailors' Drill – (Princess Ida; The Gondoliers)
- Poll's Solo – (Ruddigore)
- Entrance of Belaye, with Blanche as Bride – (The Yeomen of the Guard; Trial by Jury; Iolanthe)
- Reconciliation – (Ruddigore)
- Grand Finale – (The Mikado; Trial by Jury; H.M.S. Pinafore; Patience; Princess Ida; The Pirates of Penzance; Overture di Ballo; The Yeomen of the Guard)
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