The Filibuster is a comic opera with book and lyrics by John P. Wilson and music by William Loraine first produced by the Bank Officers Association of Boston, Mass., at the Tremont Street Theatre in 1904.

Dramatis Personæ

MIDI Files

• Overture

ACT I   -   Bay of San Francisco.

• No. 1 - Opening Chorus and Trio - "We heard today they'd sail away with a cargo that is contraband..."
• No. 2 - Song - Scuttle and Chorus - "A privateer without any fear of a nor'-west gale, or an enemy's sail - that's me..."
• No. 3 - Entrance of Cortez and Pizzaro
• No. 4 - Song - General Gonzales, with Cortez and Pizzaro - "A rebellion promoter am I, with a talent superb for intriguing..."
• No. 5 - Entrance of Female Chorus - "She's coming!  She's coming, our Dolly full of fun!  We hear the tramp of horses' feet..."
• No. 6 - Song - Dolly and Girls - "Oh, isn't it fine to stand up in line and give them a last hurrah! ..."
• No. 7 - Song - Seabrooke and Men - "He loves liberty and equal rights for all, no matter what pedantic laws may say about it..."
• No. 8 - Finale Act I - "Sad it is to say goodbye to heroes who will do or die! ..."

ACT II   -   City of Concarne, South America.

• No. 9 - Opening Chorus - "You've heard no doubt that a soldier delights in hurleying burleying, cut and thrust fights..."
• No. 10 - Revolutionary Song - Dolores and Girls - "Great Boliver calls to arms! ... To arms! ... Spain's legions are approaching..."
• No. 11 - Song - General Gonzales, with Cortez and Pissaro - "Graft!  Graft!  Everywhere you hear the word..."
• No. 12 - Song - Dolly and Chorus - "Here 'neath tropic sun's warm glow, seasons come and seasons go..."
• No. 13 - Song - Gatling and Men - "One day I docked at the Battery, after six long months of the billowy sea..."
  (4 verses)
• No. 14 - Ensemble - Dolly, Enchilada and Girls - "There is going to be a duel, for Dolores told us so, twixt her lover and another..."
• No. 15 - Duet - Dolly and Seabrooke - "Though 'tis but a bit of folly, we'll pretend that you are Dolly;  for her I have a longing..."
• No. 16 - Song and Chorus (singers unspecified) - "When bold Pizzaro sailed from Spain and steered across the stormy main..."
• No. 17 - Welcome Chorus - "Viva! Viva!  Viva the fiesta, masking, feasting, fun and jollity, peace is come and we make holiday..."
• No. 18 - "A Travesty" - Gonzales - "See in me the first of toreadors, I come from sunny Spain where thousand bull I've slain..."
• No. 19 - Finale Act II - "Oh deep is the love that we bear for our Motherland, but tyranny's wrongs we can never endure..."

ACT III   -   Coronada Beach, California.

• No. 20 - Opening Chorus - "Rising with the lark when we haven't been on one, to the links we stroll for a game of golf..."
• No. 21 - Song - Dolly and Chorus - "On the shore of the sundown sea, sheltered safe by a friendly lea, bliss indeed it is..."
• No. 22 - Song - Scuttle and Chorus - "'Tis not my style to idly boast of my exploits by flood and field..."
• No. 23 - Song - Dolly and Chorus - "The story's told, in a garden old, a lovely sunflower grew..."
• No. 24 - Song - Cortez and Pizzaro - "All 'round da big city we push-a da cart, an' our beautiful candy are crying..."
• No. 25 - Song - Hetty - "You may have heard of Johnny Wise, he's one of those long headed guys..."
• No. 26 - Finale Act III - "Sunbeam, oh sunbeam, your kisses are so sweet..."

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