Computer Generated MIDI Operas

ACT I   -   Farmer Knight's Apple Orchard.

• No. 1 - Prelude and Opening Ensemble - "'Tis the hour!  'Tis the hour!  We wait for our sweethearts, our sweetheats they go to the fair.  They are not there..."
• No. 2 - Song - Susan - "Captain Jack of the Fusileers, beloved of all the 'pretty dears', was oft the cause of sighs and tears, such a handsome chap was he ..."
• No. 3 - Song - Tom, Susan and Octet - "All girls who trust this doctor just, need fear no treatment rash;  I give no pills, for all their ills, I recommend a 'mash' ..."
• No. 4 - Trio - Mr. & Mrs. Oldfield and Ferdinand - "Yachts may be slow, with largest of sails, no matter how large they may be.   Dogs that are short ..."
• No. 5 - Song - Philip - "'Tis the lace on the skirt of a frivolous flirt,  'tis hid in the curls of all pretty young girls,  'tis all that is vain in the feminine brain..."
• No. 6 - Ensemble and Entrance of Rose - "'Tis the hour! ... 'Tis the hour! ... They're late, I fear! ... No!  No!  They are here. ... Fairest of roses, roses, roses..."
• No. 7 - Quartet - Rose, Jane, Philip and Tom - "They who tarry oft are late, no joy can come too soon.  It is most surely tempting fate to slight today's high noon."
• No. 8 - Duet - Rose and Philip - "A kiss is just nothing divided by two, a something that you all alone cannot do.  It suffices for two, deficient for three..."
• No. 9 - Song - Ferdinand and Chorus - "There's not a thing I would not do for her I love, and so would you;  most anything, it's really so, and that's the truth..."
• No. 10 - Song - Rose - "For wealth and rank I do not long, such things are false and vain;  nor can compare with Love's sweet song, sung by a simple swain..."
• No. 11 - Finale Act I - "Ding, dong, ding, dong, ringing of the bells!  Ding, dong, ding, dong, happiness foretells, for our Rose we pray blessing on the day..."

ACT II   -   Squire Oldfield's House.

• No. 12 - Entrée Act and Opening Ensemble - "Sing hey!  Sing ho!  Her welcome was most hearty,  Sing hey!  Sing ho!  For fair Queen Rose's party..."
• No. 13 - Song - Tom and Chorus - "The Hindoo Vulcan Twashitree, while he was making man, exhausted his materials ere woman he began..."
• No. 14 - Song - Rose and Chorus - "Now once there lived a maiden fair and her given name was Mary ... Mary, Mary, sweet Mary! ... "
• No. 15 - Trio - Ferdinand, Philip and Squire - "Kitty, white and silken haired, had lovers by the score, but till Sir Thomas Tilescrapper arrived from Manx's shore..."
• No. 16 - Duet - Rose and Philip - "Tell me, answer truly, do you think that you could love me? ... I might try!   I might try! ..."
• No. 17 - Song - Susan and Chorus - "'Tis foolish to say that we can ... can ... be happy without a young man ... man; ... no girlie alive unmarried can thrive..."
• No. 18 - Song - Rose - "Three tiny words form a key, form a key to the heart, though they mean little when they are apart..."
• No. 19 - Song - Philip - "'Twas in sweet scented Maytime, and the birds on ev'ry tree were singing gaily in the light a summer jubilee..."
• No. 20 - Song - Ferdinand - "Why does a man entreat and implore for one little kiss, and take half a score, then from that lady requires no more,   Why? ..."
• No. 21 - Finale Act II - "Should I sing songs of love to him?  Should I wait till the light be dim?  Should I greet you, saying, What a pleasure? ..."