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Victor Herbert

Computer Generated MIDI Operas

"The Tattooed Man" (1907)

Music by Victor Herbert (1859 - 1924)
Lyrics by Harry B. Smith

ACT I   -   Courtyard of the Regent's Palace in Persia.

  • No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "Ah!  The sunbeams drive the night away!  Come to pray!  Come to pray!  Allah il Allah! ..."
  • No. 2 - Quartette - Hashish, Muley, Yussuf and Ali - "As we through life are going, we must not be too knowing, to lots of things we have to close our eyes..."
  • No. 3 - Entrance of Arabs, and Song - Abdallah - "Yaha!  Yaha!  Yaha!  Trade with us if you like, cheat us too if you will.  We take the money of Christian dogs..."
  • No. 4 - Entrance of Omar - "Ah!  Ah!  Ah!  Shout and sing, and laurels bring for our Regent Omar.  Yes, rejoice with heart and voice to welcome him..."
  • No. 5 - Song - Omar - "In Persia there once lived a sport very game, and Omar Khayyam was his curious name..."
  • No. 6 - Chorus - "I've no doubt that you remember, if the years you scan, those fine mornings in September, when our school began..."
  • No. 7 - Song - Abdallah and Girls - "Love laughs at lock-smiths, they say, in cottage or castle halls.  Bars can't stay its way, and love always laughs at walls..."
  • No. 8 - Song - Leila - "When the day is done, and the rest is won, then is slumber for you and me.  And we sail away, in the twilight gray..."
  • No. 9 - Finale Act I - "Noble strangers, give you greeting, 'tis indeed a joyous meeting.  Each of you shall be a pet, I'm a friend of yours, you bet."

ACT II   -   The Rose Garden of the Shah of Persia.

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