Gilbert & Sullivans musical Ruddigore.
First Performed at the Savoy Theatre, London, 22 January 1887
Enter Chorus of Bridesmaids. They range themselves in front of ROSE's cottage.
CHORUS OF BRIDESMAIDS.
Fair is Rose as bright May-day;
Soft is Rose as warm west-wind;
Sweet is Rose as new-mown hay ñ
Rose is queen of maiden-kind!
Rose, all glowing
With virgin blushes, say ñ
Is anybody going
To marry you to-day?
SOLO ñ ZORAH.
Every day, as the days roll on, Bridesmaids' garb we gaily don,
Sure that a maid so fairly famed
Can't long remain unclaimed.
Hour by hour and day by day,
Several months have passed away,
Though she's the fairest flower that blows,
No one has married Rose!
CHORUS.
Rose, all glowing
With virgin blushes, say ñ
Is anybody going
To marry you to-day?
Rose is the Queen of Maidenkind...
BigIronOnHipMan2 1 year ago
I simply die..[and go to Heaven]....every time I hear this G&S masterpiece "Fair is Rose" and THIS production was SUPERIOR! Thank G - I have it in my video collection. Vito...if you're out there - do you remember "Ruddigore" at Light Opera Of Manhattan in the early 80's? Vanessa...
BigIronOnHipMan2 1 year ago
Love the chamberpots!
dnarii 2 years ago
The soloist here is fabulous! (Sorry, don't know her name, or even the character's name.) The staging is a little odd.
nclysander 3 years ago