Description

The Grand Duke was the last of the Savoy operas by Gilbert and Sullivan. The plot hinges on the misinterpretation of a 100 year-old law regarding statutory duels, decided by drawing cards. The baffled central character, Ludwig, becomes engaged to four different women before the plot is resolved.

Titles: Won t It Be A Pretty Wedding?; By The Mystic Regulation; Were I A King In Very Truth; How Would I Play This Part; My Goodness Me! What Shall I Do?; Ten Minutes Since I Met A Chap; About A Century Since; Strange The Views Some People Hold; Now Take A Card And Gaily Sing; The Good Grand Duke; A Pattern To Professors; As O er Our Penny Roll We Sing; When You Find You re A Broken-Down Critter; Come Hither, All You People; Oh, A Monarch Who Boasts Intellectual Graces; Ah, Pity Me, My Comrades True; Oh, Listen To Me, Dear; The Die Is Cast; For This Will Be A Jolly Court; As Before You We Defile; Your Loyalty Our Ducal Heart-String Touches; Yes, Ludwig And His Julia Are Mated; Take Care Of Him — He s Much Too Good To Live; Now Julia, Come, Consider It From; Your Highness, There s A Party At The Door; Now Away To The Wedding We Go; So Ends My Dream; If The Light Of Love s Lingering Ember; Come, Bumpers–Aye, Ever-So-Many; Why, Who Is This Approaching?; The Prince Of Monte Carlo; His Highness We Know Not; We re Rigged Out In Magnificent Array; Take My Advice–When Deep In Debt; Hurrah! Now Away To The Wedding; Well, You re A Pretty Kind Of Fellow; Happy Couples, Lightly Treading.