Musical Numbers
- Overture
- Act I
- 1. "List and learn" (Gondoliers, Antonio, Marco, Giuseppe, and Chorus of Contadine)
- 2. "From the sunny Spanish shore" (Duke, Duchess, Casilda, and Luiz)
- 3. "In enterprise of martial kind" (Duke with Duchess, Casilda, and Luiz)
- 4. "O rapture, when alone together" (Casilda and Luiz)
- 5. "There was a time" (Casilda and Luiz)
- 6. "I stole the prince" (Don Alhambra with Duke, Duchess, Casilda, and Luiz)
- 7. "But, bless my heart" (Casilda and Don Alhambra)
- 8. "Try we life-long" (Duke, Duchess, Casilda, Luiz, and Don Alhambra)
- 9. "Bridegroom and bride" (Chorus)
- 9a. "When a merry maiden marries" (Tessa)
- 10. "Kind sir, you cannot have the heart" (Gianetta)
- 10a. "Then one of us will be a Queen" (Marco, Giuseppe, Gianetta, and Tessa)
- Act II
- 11. "Of happiness the very pith" (Marco, Giuseppe, and Chorus of Men)
- 12. "Rising early in the morning" (Giuseppe with Chorus)
- 13. "Take a pair of sparkling eyes" (Marco)
- 14. "Here we are at the risk of our lives" (Giuseppe, Tessa, Gianetta, Marco, and Chorus)
- 15. "Dance a cachucha" (Chorus and Dance)
- 16. "There lived a king" (Don Alhambra with Marco and Giuseppe)
- 17. "In a contemplative fashion" (Marco, Giuseppe, Gianetta, and Tessa)
- 18. "With ducal pomp" (Chorus of Men with Duke and Duchess)
- 19. "On the day when I was wedded" (Duchess)
- 20. "To help unhappy commoners" (Duke and Duchess)
- 21. "I am a courtier grave and serious" (Duke, Duchess, Casilda, Marco, and Giuseppe)
- 22. "Here is a case unprecedented" (Marco, Giuseppe, Casilda, Gianetta, Tessa, and Chorus)
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