The Grand Duke - Musical Numbers

Musical Numbers

• Overture (Includes parts of "The good Grand Duke", "My Lord Grand Duke, farewell!", "With fury indescribable I burn", "Well, you're a pretty kind of fellow", "Strange the views some people hold")

Act I

• 1. "Won't it be a pretty wedding?" (Chorus)
• 1a. "Pretty Lisa, fair and tasty" (Lisa and Ludwig with Chorus)
• 2. "By the mystic regulation" (Ludwig with Chorus)
• 3. "Were I a king in very truth" (Ernest with Chorus)
• 4. "How would I play this part" (Julia and Ernest)
• 5. "My goodness me! What shall I do?", "Ten minutes since I met a chap" (Ludwig and Chorus)
• 6. "About a century since" (Notary)
• 7. "Strange the views some people hold" (Julia, Lisa, Ernest, Notary, and Ludwig)

• 8. "Now take a card and gaily sing" (Julia, Lisa, Ernest, Notary, and Ludwig)
• 9. "The good Grand Duke" (Chorus of Chamberlains)
• 9a. "A pattern to professors of monarchical autonomy" (Grand Duke)
• 10. "As o'er our penny roll we sing" (Baroness and Grand Duke)
• 11. "When you find you're a broken-down critter" (Grand Duke)
• 12. Finale, Act I
  • "Come hither, all you people" (Ensemble)
  • "Oh, a monarch who boasts intellectual graces" (Ludwig with Chorus)
  • "Ah, pity me, my comrades true" (Julia with Chorus)
  • "Oh, listen to me, dear" (Julia and Lisa with Chorus)
  • "The die is cast" (Lisa with Chorus)
  • "For this will be a jolly Court" (Ludwig and Chorus)

Act II

• 13. "As before you we defile" (Chorus)
• 14. "Your loyalty our Ducal heart-string touches" (Ludwig with Chorus)
• 14a. "At the outset I may mention" (Ludwig with Chorus)
• 15. "Yes, Ludwig and his Julia are mated" (Ludwig)
• 15a. "Take care of him – he's much too good to live" (Lisa)

• 16. "Now Julia, come, consider it from" (Julia and Ludwig)
• 17. "Your Highness, there's a party at the door" (Chorus)
• 17a. "With fury indescribable I burn" (Baroness and Ludwig)
• 18. "Now away to the wedding we go" (Baroness and Chorus)
• 19. "So ends my dream", "Broken ev'ry promise plighted" (Julia)
• 20. "If the light of love's lingering ember" (Julia, Ernest, and Chorus)
• 21. "Come, bumpers – aye, ever-so-many" (Baroness with Chorus)
• 22. "Why, who is this approaching?" (Ludwig and Chorus)
• 23. "The Prince of Monte Carlo" (Herald and Chorus)
• 24. "His highness we know not" (Ludwig)
• 25. "We're rigged out in magnificent array" (Prince of Monte Carlo)
• 26. Dance
• 27. "Take my advice – when deep in debt" (Prince of Monte Carlo with Chorus)
• 28. "Hurrah! Now away to the wedding" (Ensemble)
• 28a. "Well, you're a pretty kind of fellow" (Grand Duke with Chorus)
• 29. "Happy couples, lightly treading" (Ensemble)