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Gilbert & Sullivan - PRINCESS IDA - Act II finale (Sir Malcolm Sargent / D'Oyly Carte, 19

PRINCESS IDA (or Castle Adamant) Librettist: Sir William Schwenk (W.S.) Gilbert, after Tennyson’s “The Princess” (1847) and Gilbert’s own theatrical adaptation of 1870 Composer: Sir Arthur Sullivan First performance: Savoy Theatre, London, 5 January 1884 Although often seen as an attack on feminism and the notion of women’s education, “Princess Ida’s” true target is the war between the sexes. Gilbert pokes fun at the man-hating feminist, while the men themselves are, by and large, belligerent, stupid or peevish. (For the record, the heroine of “Utopia, Limited” is a maiden rich in Girton lore.) Princess Ida was (like so many of Gilbert’s characters) married as a baby to Prince Hilarion. However, she has set up a women’s college, and refuses to get hitched. Hilarion and his friends enter the college disguised as women. No. 20 – Finale Act II • “Oh, joy! our chief is saved” • “Whom thou hast chained must wear his chain” • “Walls and fences scaling” • “Some years ago, no doubt you know” • “We may remark, though nothing can dismay us” • “To yield at once to such a foe with shame were rife” Princess Ida discovers that the three new young recruits to her college are not women at all, but men in disguise. Uproar. She falls off a bridge into a stream, and Hilarion dives in and rescues her. The Princess, however, is adamant; she orders Hilarion and his friends to be executed. At that moment, Hilarion’s father King Hildebrand and his army burst in. Hildebrand threatens to execute Ida’s three hulking brothers (whom he holds hostage) unless she releases Hilarion and his friends. Ida and her students hurl defiance at the coarse invader. King Hildebrand (bass-baritone): Kenneth Sandford Hilarion, King Hildebrand’s son (tenor): Philip Potter Cyril, Hilarion’s friend (tenor): David Palmer Florian, Hilarion’s friend (lyric baritone): Jeffrey Skitch Arac, King Gama’s son (bass-baritone): Donald Adams Guron, King Gama’s son (bass-baritone): Anthony Raffell Scynthius, King Gama’s son (bass): George Cook Princess Ida, King Gama’s daughter (soprano): Elizabeth Harwood Lady Blanche, Professor of Abstract Science (contralto): Christene Palmer Melissa, Lady Blanche’s daughter (mezzo-soprano): Valerie Masterson Sacharissa, girl graduate (soprano): Valerie Masterson Conductor: Sir Malcolm Sargent Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, 1965 Artist: W. Russell Flint (http://www.gilbertandsullivanarchive.... and http://www.gilbertandsullivanarchive....)