Musical Numbers
Overture: Cellier's Suite Symphonique
- Act I
- No. 1. "Chaunt of the Monks" and "We are members of a secret society" (Men's Chorus and Giorgio)
- No. 2. "Come, all the Maidens" (Chorus)
- No. 3. "If you please" (Minestra and Risotto)
- No. 4. "Only think, a Duke and Duchess!" (Chorus and Minestra)
- No. 5. "High Jerry Ho!" (Arrostino and Male Chorus)
- No. 6. "Teresa, Little Word" and "Bedecked in Fashion Trim" (Alfredo)
- No. 7. "It's my Opinion" (Teresa)
- No. 8. "Upon my word, Miss" (Ultrice, Teresa, Alfredo, and Elvino)
- No. 9. "Fair maid, take pity" (Alfredo, Teresa, Ultrice, and Elvino)
- No. 10. "Tabor and Drum" (Female Chorus, Pietro, Bartolo, and Nita)
- No. 11. "Those days of old" and "Allow that the plan I devise"(Nita, with Bartolo and Pietro)
- No. 12. "Oh luck unequalled" ... "I'm only joking" .... "Oh, whither, whither, whither, do you speed you?" (Ultrice, Teresa, and Alfredo)
- No. 13. "Finale Act I" (Ensemble)
- Act II
- No. 14. "Entr'acte" (By Ivan Caryll)
- No. 15, "I'd be a young girl if I could" (Minestra and Risotto)
- No. 16. "All alone to my eerie" (Teresa)
- No. 17. "If I can catch this jolly Jack-Patch" (Teresa and Minestra)
- No. 18. "If our action's stiff and crude" (Bartolo and Nita)
- No. 19. "Where gentlemen are eaten up with jealousy" (Bartolo, Nita, and Pietro)
- No. 20. "Time there was when earthly joy" (Chorus (with Soprano and Contralto solo), Arrostino, and Pietro)
- No. 20a. OPTIONAL SONG: "When your clothes, from your hat to your socks" (Pietro) (By Ivan Caryll)1
- No. 21. "The Duke and Duchess hither wend their way" (Luigi, Arrostino, Alfredo and Chorus)
- No. 22. "Willow, willow, where's my love?" (Teresa)
- No. 23. "In days gone by" (Alfredo, Teresa, and Ultrice)
- No. 24. "An hour? Nay, nay." (Ultrice)
- No. 25. "Oh, please you not to go away" (Chorus, Pietro, Elvino, Alfredo, Ultrice, Bartolo, Nita)
- No. 26. "Ophelia was a dainty little maid" (Pietro, Bartolo, and Nita)
- No. 27. "Finale" (Ensemble)
1 The placement of this song changed within the act before it was cut. "Ophelia was a dainty little maid" replaced it. However, it was included on the only commercial recording of The Mountebanks.
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