I have been looking at all the Oh Foolish Fay songs on U tube and this is the best to date out of about 10 even though not with chorus - just sung about 5% too fast for my taste but great - agree that this is a most underrated G and S the other aria My lord, a suppliant at your feet is great
Unquestionably, the best.. perhaps because of her actor training? I met her some 20 plus years afterwards when I surveyed her house. Meeting a legend I had loved since Rock Follies was incredible.
Oh, foolish fay,
Think you, because
His brave array
My bosom thaws,
I’d disobey
Our fairy laws?
Because I fly
In realms above,
In tendency
To fall in love,
Resemble I
The amorous dove?
Resemble I
The amorous dove?
(Aside.) Oh, amorous dove! Type of Ovidius Naso! (the full name of the Roman...