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The Pirates of Penzance - Musical Numbers

Overture

Act 1

1. OPENING CHORUS & SOLO (Samuel)

Pour, oh pour, the pirate sherry

2. SONG (Ruth)

When Frederic was a little lad

3. SONG (Pirate King and Chorus)

Oh, better far to live and die

4. RECIT. & DUET (Ruth& Frederic)

Oh, false one...
You told me you were fair as gold

5. CHORUS OF GIRLS

Climbing over rocky mountain

6 and 7. RECIT. (Edith, Kate, Frederic & CHORUS), SONG (Frederic & CHORUS)

Stop, ladies, pray!...
Oh, is there not one maiden breast

8. SONG (Mabel & CHORUS)

Poor wandering one

9. and 10. SOLOS(Kate & Edith), DUET (Mabel & Frederic) & CHORUS What ought we to do
how beautifully blue the sky
11. SOLO (Frederic) & CHORUS Stay we must not lose our senses...
Here's a first-rate opportunity

12. RECITATIVE

Hold, monsters!

13. SONG (Major-General & CHORUS)

I am the very model of a modern major-general

14. FINALE

Oh, men of dark and dismal fate

Act 2

15. CHORUS & SOLO (Mabel)

Oh, dry the glist'ning tear

16. RECIT (Major-General & Frederic)

Then, frederic, let your escort lion-hearted...

17. CHORUS (WITH SOLOS)

When the foeman bears his steel

18. RECITATIVE

Now for the pirates lair!

19. TRIO (Ruth, Frederic & King)

When you had left our pirate fold

20. TRIO (Ruth, Frederic & King)

Away, away! My heart's on fire!

21 and 22 . RECITATIVE & DUET (Frederic & Mabel)

All is prepared...
Stay, frederic, stay... Ah, leave me not

23. RECITATIVE (Mabel & Sergeant)

No, I'll be brave

24. SONG (Sergeant)

When a felon's not engaged

25 and 26. CHORUS & SOLOS
CHORUS & SOLO (Samuel)

A rollicking band of pirates we...
With cat-like tread

27 and 28. RECITATIVE
SONG (Major-General ) & FINALE

Hush, hush! Not a word....
Sighing softly to the river