ACT I   -   University Place in Prague, Bohemia.   Summer, 1600.

• No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "This university calls me by coutesy its Curator ... Oh! what a bore! ... Try no experiment, all undue merriment I abhor! ..."
• No. 2 - Duet - Merrilaff and Grumblekoff - "As counsellor, I scheme and plan ... Disturbed by me, his brother ... Our father was a gentleman..."
• No. 3 - Election Ensemble - "Come, lads, your King be choosing! ... Much precious time we're losing ... Away with all reflection, now proceed to the election!"
• No. 4 - Entrance of Ilsa, with Chorus of Girls - "Ilsa would a-wooing go, heigh-o! and heigh-o!  She's disguised so none may know..."
• No. 5 - Song - Francis (a.k.a. Fortunatus) - "A secret lies within my heart, I fain would see, I fain would see, a secret sweet I pray impart alone, alone to me..."
• No. 6 - Entrance of the King - "Our King with royal pageantry advances, we welcome him with merry fife and drums.  This regal pomp his dignity enhances..."
• No. 7 - Song - King Rudolph - "When as a child I found that I had trouble and to spare to, then someone's pills would cure the ills that childhood oft is heir to..."
• No. 8 - Finale Act I - "High carnival!  High carnival!  What magic it contains!  High carnival!  High carnival!  The King of mischief reigns!"

ACT II   -   Ball Room in the Royal Palace.   Night.

• No. 9 - Introduction and Carnival Scene - "We hear!  Now 'tis carnival, let us be gay!  Be gay!  Long live Carnival, all of us say!  Hail the night..."
• No. 10 - Tarantella - Fantine and Chorus - "Now we come to woo.  Lovers would a-wooing go.  We are lovers true, hola!  Come Cupid from above, and show us..."
• No. 11 - Duet - Ilsa and Francis - "Sweet Columbine thy heart entwine, dear Columbine, with heart of mine.  My Queen art thou, to thee I vow..."
• No. 12 - Czárdás - Anne and Chorus - "Tell me, lovers, tell me where hides the one I seek, the lost king I seek?  Tell me, where is he? ..."
• No. 13 - Duet - Merrilaff and King Rudolph - "If you would win a lady fair, how you begin, now have a care!  What they don't know no man may guess..."
• No. 14 - Scene - Ilsa, Francis and Chorus - "High carnival, high carnival!  The King of mischief reigns!  High carnival, high carnival!  His will alone obtains..."
• No. 15 - Song - Ilsa - "There was once a gay lieutenant who had never, never been to war;  he was awfully fond of a dainty little blonde..."
• No. 16 - Song - Rudolph and Men - "Near a minster liv'd a spinster, and she was a damsel fair ... She was a damsel, she was a damsel, she was a damsel fair..."
• No. 17 - Finale Act II - "Now our King weds tonight ... What from this shall betide? ... Hail the Queen with delight..."

ACT III   -   Fest Hall of the University.   About 11.30 p.m.

• No. 18 - Scene and Ensemble - "Students draw near, keep the steins brimming with foaming beer, till the lark's roundelay greets the golden god of day..."
• No. 19 - Song - Ilsa and Chorus - "I once knew a student, in love then was he, with a tra-la-la-la, tra-la-la, who said 'I am prudent and good as can be'..."
• No. 20 - Finale Act III - "High Carnival, high Carnival, what magic it contains.  High Carnival, high Carnival!  The King of mischief reigns!"

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