{"product_id":"2940016129624","title":"THE 14 GILBERT AND SULLIVAN PLAYS","description":"Contents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     GONDOLIERS\u003cbr\u003e     GRAND DUKE\u003cbr\u003e     H.M.S. PINAFORE\u003cbr\u003e     IOLANTHE\u003cbr\u003e     THE MIKADO\u003cbr\u003e     PIRATES OF PENZANCE\u003cbr\u003e     PRINCESS IDA\u003cbr\u003e     RUDDIGORE\u003cbr\u003e     THE SORCERER\u003cbr\u003e     THESPIS\u003cbr\u003e     TRIAL BY JURY\u003cbr\u003e     UTOPIA, LIMITED\u003cbr\u003e     YEOMEN OF THE GUARD\u003cbr\u003e     PATIENCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GONDOLIERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  OR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE KING OF BARATARIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Libretto by William S. Gilbert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Music by Arthur S. Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  DRAMATIS PERSONAE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE DUKE OF PLAZA-TORO (a Grandee of Spain)\u003cbr\u003e  LUIZ (his attendant)\u003cbr\u003e  DON ALHAMBRA DEL BOLERO (the Grand Inquisitioner)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Venetian Gondoliers\u003cbr\u003e       MARCO PALMIERI\u003cbr\u003e       GIUSEPPE PALMIERI\u003cbr\u003e       ANTONIO\u003cbr\u003e       FRANCESCO\u003cbr\u003e       GIORGIO\u003cbr\u003e       ANNIBALE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE DUCHESS OF PLAZA-TORO\u003cbr\u003e  CASILDA (her Daughter)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Contadine\u003cbr\u003e       GIANETTA\u003cbr\u003e       TESSA\u003cbr\u003e       FIAMETTA\u003cbr\u003e       VITTORIA\u003cbr\u003e       GIULIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  INEZ (the King's Foster-mother)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Chorus of Gondoliers and Contadine, Men-at-Arms, Heralds and\u003cbr\u003e  Pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                ACT I\u003cbr\u003e                        The Piazzetta, Venice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                               ACT II\u003cbr\u003e                 Pavilion in the Palace of Barataria\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  (An interval of three months is supposed to elapse between Acts I\u003cbr\u003e  and II)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                DATE\u003cbr\u003e                                1750\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACT I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Scene.-- the Piazzetta, Venice.  The Ducal Palace on the right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Fiametta, Giulia, Vittoria, and other Contadine discovered, each\u003cbr\u003e  tying a bouquet of roses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                        CHORUS OF CONTADINE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                 List and learn, ye dainty roses,\u003cbr\u003e                      Roses white and roses red,\u003cbr\u003e                 Why we bind you into posies\u003cbr\u003e                      Ere your morning bloom has fled.\u003cbr\u003e                 By a law of maiden's making,\u003cbr\u003e                 Accents of a heart that's aching,\u003cbr\u003e                 Even though that heart be breaking,\u003cbr\u003e                      Should by maiden be unsaid:\u003cbr\u003e                 Though they love with love exceeding,\u003cbr\u003e                 They must seem to be unheeding--\u003cbr\u003e                 Go ye then and do their pleading,\u003cbr\u003e                      Roses white and roses red!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                              FIAMETTA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                 Two there are for whom in duty,\u003cbr\u003e                      Every maid in Venice sighs--\u003cbr\u003e                 Two so peerless in their beauty\u003cbr\u003e                      That they shame the summer skies.\u003cbr\u003e                 We have hearts for them, in plenty,\u003cbr\u003e                      They have hearts, but all too few,\u003cbr\u003e                 We, alas, are four-and-twenty!\u003cbr\u003e                      They, alas, are only two!\u003cbr\u003e                 We, alas!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHORUS.                                 Alas!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  FIA.           Are four-and-twenty,\u003cbr\u003e                 They, alas!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHORUS.                                 Alas!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  FIA.           Are only two.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHORUS.        They, alas, are only two, alas!\u003cbr\u003e                 Now ye know, ye dainty roses,\u003cbr\u003e                 Roses white and roses red,\u003cbr\u003e                 Why we bind you into posies,\u003cbr\u003e                      Ere your morning bloom has fled,\u003cbr\u003e                      Roses white and roses red!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  (During this chorus Antonio, Francesco, Giorgio, and other\u003cbr\u003e  Gondoliers have entered unobserved by the Girls--at first two,\u003cbr\u003e  then two more, then four, then half a dozen, then the remainder\u003cbr\u003e  of the Chorus.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                SOLI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  FRANC.    Good morrow, pretty maids; for whom prepare ye\u003cbr\u003e            These floral tributes extraordinary?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  FIA.      For Marco and Giuseppe Palmieri,\u003cbr\u003e            The pink and flower of all the Gondolieri.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  GIU.      They're coming here, as we have heard but lately,\u003cbr\u003e            To choose two brides from us who sit sedately.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ANT.      Do all you maidens love them?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ALL.                                    Passionately!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ANT.      These gondoliers are to be envied greatly!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  GIOR.     But what of us, who one and all adore you?\u003cbr\u003e            Have pity on our passion, we implore you!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  FIA.      These gentlemen must make their choice before you;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VIT.      In the meantime we tacitly ignore you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  GIU.      When they have chosen two that leaves you plenty--\u003cbr\u003e            Two dozen we, and ye are four-and-twenty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  FIA. and VIT.  Till then, enjoy your dolce far niente.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ANT.      With pleasure, nobody contradicente!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                      SONG--ANTONIO and CHORUS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                 For the merriest fellows are we, tra la,","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153125490928,"sku":"2940016129624","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016129624","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}