The Charlatan is a comic opera in three acts with music by Sousa and book by Charles Klein. It was first performed at the Academy of Music, Montreal on 29 August 1898, and at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York City on 5 September 1898.
Dramatis Personæ
DEMIDOFF | De Wolf Hopper |
PRINCE BORIS | Edmund Stanley |
GOGOL | Mark M. Price |
JELIKOFF | Alfred Klein |
CAPTAIN PESHOFKI | George W. Barnum |
GRAND DUKE | Arthur Cunningham |
KOREFF | Harry P. Stone |
SKOBELOFF | C. Arthur |
ANNA | Nella Bergen |
KATRINKA | Alice Judson |
SOPHIA | Katherine Carlisle |
GRAND DUCHESS | Adine Bouviere |
MIDI Files
ACT I
- No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "Mountebanks, come waken from your dreaming, golden dawn is breaking in the sky..."
- No. 2 - Songs - Katrinka, Demidoff and Chorus - "As the agent in advance of Demidoff the Grand, Magician to the Czar..."
- No. 3 - Quartette - Anna, Katrinka, Demidoff and Jelicoff - "A navigator sailing on the seas..."
- No. 4 - Scene - Anna, Katrinka, Boris, Demidoff and Chorus - "Caballa! Abdalla! Hawoka! Sulon!..."
- No. 5 - Solo - Anna and Chorus - "When the wintry moon is bright, and the curtain of the night is illumin'd by the stars..."
- No. 6 - Finale Act I - "Love's the pleasure, Love's the pain, Love's the sickle, Love's the grain..."
ACT II
- No. 7 - Entr'acte, Melodrama and Reprise - Demidoff and Male Chorus - "I am the seventh son of a seventh son..."
- No. 8 - Duet and Chorus - Anna and Boris - "Before the twilight shadows change to tints of misty gray..."
- No. 9 - Duet - Katrinka and Demidoff - "The college man is rollicking, frolicking all the live-long day..."
- No. 10 - Choral Ensemble - "Day of joy when young hearts are mated, golden chains are linking soul with soul..."
- No. 11 - Finale Act II - "After due consideration I have hit upon this plan, we'll deny the allegation..."
ACT III
- No. 12 - Entre Acte and Mazurka
- No. 13 - Meditation - Anna - "Oh, sunlit sea beyond the West, oh, summer sea where all is rest..."
- No. 13bis - Melodrama and Refrain - Demidoff and Chorus - "I am the seventh son of a seventh son..."
- No. 14 - Song - Demidoff and Chorus - "When mother earth was in her teens, the frogs were in a muddle..."
- No. 15 - Finale Act III - "The college man is rollicking, frolicking all the live-long day..."
- External Link
- Vocal Score at the Internet Archive.
Page modified 31 October 2016