The Rose of Persia



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Act I

NO.
1.	INTRODUCTION CHORUS OF GIRLS SONG (Hassan)		"As we lie in languor lazy" " I'm Abu-el-Hassan"
		»Dialogue
2.	SONG (Abdallah) with CHORUS OF GIRLS		"When Islam first arose"
		»Dialogue
3.	SONG (Dancing Sunbeam)		"O Life has put into my hand"
4.	RECIT. and TRIO (Blush-of-Morning, Dancing Sunbeam and Abdallah)		"Sunbeam! The Priest keeps saying...If a sudden stroke of Fate"
		»Dialogue
5.	TRIO (Rose-in-Bloom, Scent-of-Lilies, and Heart's Desire)		"If you ask me to advise you"
		»Dialogue
6.	SONG (Rose-in-Bloom)		"'Neath my lattice through the night"
7.	CHORUS		"Tramps and scamps and halt and blind"
8.	SONG (Hassan) with CHORUS		"When my father sent me to Ispahan"
9.	RECIT. (Yussuf) with CHORUS SONG (Yussuf) with CHORUS		"Peace be upon this house" "I care not if the cup I hold"
		»Dialogue
10.	ENSEMBLE with DANCERS and CHORUS		"Musical Maidens are we"
11.	SONG (Abdallah with Hassan) and CHORUS		"We have come to invade"
		»Dialogue
12.	OCTET and DANCE		"The Sultan's Executioner"
		»Dialogue
13.	QUARTET (Sultan, Grand Vizier, Physician and Executioner)		"I'm the Sultan's Vigilant Vizier"
		»Dialogue
14.	FINALE (a) CHORUS OF GIRLS (b) RECIT. and SOLO (Sultan) with CHORUS (c) CHORUS (d) TRIO (Vizier, Physician and Executioner) and CHORUS (e) CHORUS		"O luckless hour" "O ladies, what assails you?...You'll understand that now and then" "With martial gait — with kettle-drums" "Attended by these Palace Warders" "Oh, fit the arrows of respect"

Act II

15.	DUET (Heart's Desire and Yussuf)		"Oh, What is Love?"
		»Dialogue
16.	QUARTET (Scent-of-Lilies, Honey-of-Life, Heart's Desire, and Yussuf)		"If You or I Should Tell the Truth"
17.	CHORUS and SOLOS (Physician, Vizier and Executioner)		"From Morning Prayer the Sultan"
		»Dialogue
18.	SONG (Sultan) with CHORUS		"Let a Satirist Enumerate a Catalogue"
		»Dialogue
19.	SONG (Dancing Sunbeam with others)		"In the Heart of my Heart's I've Always Known "
		»Dialogue
20.	DUET (Rose-in-Bloom and Sultan)		"Suppose — I say, Suppose"
21.	CHORUS with SOLOS (Hassan, Physician, Vizier and Executioner)		"Laughing Low, on Tip-Toe"
		»Dialogue
22.	QUINTET (Scent-of-Lilies, Heart's Desire, Yussuf, Hassan and Executioner) and CHORUS		"It's a Busy, Busy, Busy, Busy Day for Thee"
		»Dialogue
23.	SONG (Yussuf)		"Our Tale is Told"
		»Dialogue
24.	RECIT. and MADRIGAL (Dancing Sunbeam, Blush-of-Morning, Yussuf and A Royal Guard)		"What Does it Mean?...Joy and sorrow"
		»Dialogue
25.	SEPTET (Scent-of-Lilies, Honey-of-Life, Heart's Desire, Dancing Sunbeam, Yussuf, Hassan and Abdallah)		"It Has Reached Me A Lady"
26.	SCENA (Tutti)		"Hassan, the Sultan with his Court"
27.	SONG (Hassan) with CHORUS		"There Was Once a Small Street Arab"
		»Dialogue
28.	FINALE		"A bridal march"