Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
Act I - Fairyland
(the upper side of a cloud which floats over the Earth)
Act II - Fairyland - by moonlight
Produced under the Stage Direction of the Author
Musical Director .. .. .. .. .. Hamish MacCunn
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MUSICAL NUMBERS
| OVERTURE | ||
| ACT I | ||
| 1. | OPENING CHORUS (Locrine, Darine and Fairies) |
"Oh, world below!" |
| 2. | CHORUS (Fairies) | "Hail, Lutin, wondrous traveller!" |
| 3. | RECIT. AND SONG (Lutin) with CHORUS |
"One incident I'll tell that will appall" |
| 4. | SONG (Selene) | "With all the misery, with all the shame" |
| 5. | DUET (Darine and Zayda) | "Man is a being all accuse" |
| 6. | SCENA (Selene and Fairies) | "And now summon them" |
| 7. | RECITATIVE and DUET (Sir Ethais and Sir Phyllon) |
"By god and man, who brought us here, and how?" "This is some wizardry of thy design" |
| 8. | SONG (Selene) | "Poor, purblind, untaught youths" |
| 9. | ENSEMBLE (Sir Ethais and Sir Phyllon) TRIO (Darine, Zayda and Locrine) RECITATIVE (Selene) COUPLETS (Sir Ethais and Selene) with CHORUS |
"With keen remorse" "Oh, gentle knights, with joy elate" "If my obedient pupils you would be" "When homage to his Queen a subject shows" |
| 10. | ACT I FINALE: SONG (Lutin) RECITATIVE (Zayda, Darine, Selene, Ethais and Lutin) SONG (Lutin) with CHORUS ENSEMBLE (Fairies, Sir Ethais and Sir Phyllon) |
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| ACT II | ||
| 11. | CHORUS (Fairies ) | "For many an hour" |
| 12. | SONG (Zayda) | "I never profess to make a guess" |
| 13. | BALLAD (Selene) | "Thy features are fair and seemly" |
| 14. | SONG (Sir Ethais) | "When a knight loves ladye" |
| 15. | DUET (Darine and Sir Phyllon) | "But dost thou hear?" |
| 16. | INCIDENTAL MUSIC | |
| 17. | SONG (Lutin) | "Suppose you take, with open mind" |
| 18. | SONG (Lutin) with CHORUS | "In yonder world, where devils strew" |
| 19. | SONG (Lutin) with CHORUS | "When husband supposes" |
| 20. | SONG (Darine) | "Triumphant I!" |
| 21. | SCENA (Darine, Zayda, Locrine, Neodie, Selene and Fairies) | "Thou art the source of all the ill" |
| 22. | SONG (Selene) | "Hark ye, sir knight" |
| 23. | CLOSING CHORUS (Ensemble) | "Pure as the air" |
In lieu of locating a copy of the vocal score for Fallen Fairies, [published by Chappell & Co. in 1909], the above musical listing is compiled from the libretto published in Original Plays by W. S. Gilbert - fourth series, [Chatto & Windus, London: 1920 ed.]. Following usual practice, the titles of the songs are derived from the first line of the lyric. [Numbering and song titles may not be as given in the vocal score.]
After Nancy MacIntosh had been replaced in the role of Selene by Amy Evans during the show's original run, an Act 2 Duet for Selene and Ethais, [omitted in the published libretto], was cut and replaced with a song written for Selene - "Oh love that rulest in our land" - that had been removed from the score before production at Gilbert's suggestion, even though German had already set and orchestrated it.)
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