ACT I - The Market Square of a Mexican Town. Early morning.
- No. 1 - Opening Chorus
- "Day break and all is well. The city wakes and doffs its sleeping spell. Night is dying, day is hieing, mystic shadows fleet away..."
- No. 2 - Song - Captain Carmona and Chorus
- "It's customary in a man of my exalted station to tell to you just who he is and what, but I will entertain you..."
- No. 3 - Song - Rodrigo
- "When the cause you espouse needs your aid, and there's powder and smoke in the air, you must give up your work-a-day trade..."
- No. 4 - Duet - Marguerita and Rodrigo
- "When you came ev'ry night and lingered long beneath my lattice, had you no love at all for me? ..."
- No. 5a - Scene - Juan and Tita
- "Tita! Tita! Hark to the voice of your lover, waiting and longing for you. Long tho' the days may be, promise you'll wait for me..."
- No. 5b - Song - Tita
- "On the gabled top of a village shop dwelt a gilded weather vane; in the simple minds of the simple winds she was anything but plain..."
- No. 6 - Entrance of Johnny Rocks, and Song
- "Why, goodness gracious sakes alive! The Yankee's going to arrive. Come, hurry! one and all prepare..."
- No. 7 - Trio - Johnny Rocks, Tita and Captain Carmona
- "What is it that the poorer class can feel but never see? ... It isn't money, is it? ... Not at all! ..."
- No. 8 - Finale Act I
- "What now! What means this awful row? The Captain, my Captain! I'm just in time I vow. Release him knaves, straightway..."
ACT II - The Patio of the Hacienda of Rodrigo Cortinez. Noon of the next day.
ACT III - The Borda Gardens on the Night of a Fiesta.
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