Sir John in Love · Opera
Songs in Sir John in Love
This page features the songs from Sir John in Love. Song cards link to details such as style, context, vocal notes, and audition cut suggestions when available. Explore the list below to access song guides.
Author’s Note: This opera is through-composed with no strict scene delineations. Indications are given here of when the action changes, or particular arias or duets, at the author’s discretion. Other breakdowns may vary.
Act One
Scene One
- Introduction
- What hoa, what hoa’ - Shallow, Evans, Slender, Page, Bardolf, Pistol, Nym, Simple
- ‘Ahem’, ‘I had rather than forty shillings’ - Anne, Slender
- ‘This is my father’s choice’ - Anne, Fenton
- ‘Hark ye, master Slender would speak a word with you’ - Page, Anne, Fenton
- ‘Vere is dat knave Rugby?’ - Caius, Rugby, Simple, Quickly, Fenton
Scene Two
- Episode
- ‘How now, mine Host of the Garter’ - Bardolph, Nym, Pistol, Host, Falstaff
- ‘Wilt thou revenge?’ - Pistol, Nym, Ford
- ‘Love my wife? I will be patient’ - Ford, Mrs. Ford, Mrs Page
Act Two
Scene One
- Introduction
- ‘Thine own true knight’ - Mrs. Page, Mrs. Ford
- ‘Sigh no more ladies’ - Quickly, Mrs. Page, Mrs. Ford
Scene Two
- ‘Bardolph! Bardolph, I say!’ - Falstaff, Bardolph, Quickly
- ‘Go thy ways, go thy ways, old Jack!’ - Falstaff
- ‘There’s one Master Brook below’ - Bardolph, Ford, Falstaff
- ‘Ha, is this a vision?’ - Ford
- ‘Vere is mine host’ - Caius, Host, Slender, Shallow, Page
Act Three
Scene One
- Introduction
- ‘Yet hear me speak’ - Fenton, Host
- ‘Fair and fair and twice so fair’ - Host, Chorus of Young Women
- ‘But listen, good mine Host’ - Anne Page, Chorus of Young Women, Host
Scene Two
- Introduction
- ‘When as we sat in Papylon’ - Evans, Simple
- ‘Yonder he’s coming’ - Simple, Evans, Shallow, Slender, Host, Page, Caius
- ‘Come, Master Ford’ - Page, Ford, Simple, Slender, Shallow, Caius, Evans, Host, Rugby
Scene Three
- Introduction
- ‘What, John! What, Robert!’ - Mrs Ford, Mrs Page, John, Robert, Quickly
- ‘Alas, my love, you do me wrong’ - Mrs Ford, Falstaff
- ‘Mistress Ford!’ - Quickly, Mrs Ford, Falstaff, Mrs Page
- ‘When I was a bachelor’ - Ford, Men’s Chorus, Mrs Ford, Robert, Page
- ‘Is not there a double excellency in this?’ - Mrs Page, Mrs Ford, Ford, Evans, Caius, Slender, Shallow, Host, Page, Pistol, Nym, Rugby, Chorus
Act Four
Scene One
- Introduction
- ‘Pardon me, wife’ - Ford, Mrs Ford, Page, Mrs Page, Evans
- ‘There is an old tale that goes Herne the hunter’ - Mrs Page, Mrs Ford, Page, Ford, Evans, [Anne Page, Quickly, Shallow, Simple, Bardolph, Robert, Nym, Host, John, Rugby, Pistol with] Chorus
- ‘Master Doctor a word with you’ - Mrs Page, Slender, Page, Caius, Evans, [Principals with] Chorus
- Interlude
Scene Two
- Introduction
- ‘The Windsor bell hath struck 12’ - Falstaff, Mrs Ford, Mrs Page, Anne, Chorus
- ‘But till ‘tis 1 o’clock’ - Quickly, Chorus, Anne
- Dance of the Fairies - Caius, Slender, Robin, William, Anne, Fenton,
- ‘But stay! I smell a man of middle earth’ - Evans, Falstaff, Chorus [and Principals], Quickly
- ‘Nay, do not fly’ - Page, Mrs Page, Ford, Mrs Ford, Host, Bardolph, Nym, Pistol, Quickly, Evans
- ‘Yet, be cheerful, knight’ - Page, Mrs Page, Shallow, Slender, Simple, William, Caius, Robin, Rugby, Ford
- ‘My heart misgives me’ - Mrs Page, Chorus, Fenton, Anne, Page
- ‘Stand not amazed’ - Falstaff, Anne, Mrs Page, Mrs Ford, Quickly, Fenton, Pistol, Chorus [and remaining principals]
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number.