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Synthesized MIDI Light Operas

"Princess Caprice" (1912)

Music by Leo Fall (1873 - 1925)
Lyrics by A. Scott Craven, Harry Beswick and Percy Greenbank

ACT I   -   A Room in the Palace of Thessalia.

  • No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "Rouse up! Rouse up! And open wide your doors, or else we'll smash them! .. Locks, bolts and bars .. We will deride, and to the deuce..."
  • No. 2 - Song - Augustin - "Mm.. mm.. mm..  Take your time, that is my philosophy, for frantic haste is foolish waste, so wisdom teaches me..."
  • No. 3 - Duet - Helen and Augustin - "A music-master once I knew whose hands about the keyboard flew;  his taking ways none could resist ... Romantic ..."
  • No. 4 - Concerted Number - "Great sire, with wrath and with anger fierce we burn;  the deferential worm at times will turn, and we are out for mutiny today..."
  • No. 5 - Duet - Helen and Augustin - "There lived an old, old king once;  sad was his heart and white his hair, and foolishly he wedded a maiden young and fair..."

ACT II   -   The Throne Room in the Palace.

Click here for details of the original London cast.

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