Ruddigore, or The Witch’s Curse

Overture

Act I

• 1. "Fair is Rose" (Chorus of Bridesmaids)
• 2. "Sir Rupert Murgatroyd" (Hannah and Chorus)
• 3. "If somebody there chanced to be" (Rose)
• 4. "I know a youth" (Rose and Robin)
• 5. "From the briny sea" (Chorus of Bridesmaids)
• 6. "I shipp'd, d'ye see, in a revenue sloop" (Richard and Chorus)
• 6a. Hornpipe
• 7. "My boy, you may take it from me" (Robin and Richard)
• 8. "The battle's roar is over" (Rose and Richard)
• 9. "If well his suit has sped" (Chorus of Bridesmaids)
• 10. "In sailing o'er life's ocean wide" (Rose, Richard, and Robin)
• 11. "Cheerily carols the lark" (Margaret)
• 12. "Welcome, gentry" (Double Chorus)
• 13. "Oh, why am I moody and sad?" (Sir Despard and Chorus)
• 14. "You understand? I think I do" (Richard and Sir Despard)
• 1. Finale Act I:
  2. "Hail the bride of seventeen summers" (Ensemble)
  3. Madrigal, "When the buds are blossoming" (Ensemble)
  4. "When I'm a bad Bart, I will tell taradiddles!" (Robin and Chorus)
  5. "Oh, happy the lily" (Ensemble)

Act II

• 16. "I once was as meek" (Sir Ruthven and Adam)
• 17. "Happily coupled are we" (Rose and Richard)
• 18. "In bygone days" (Rose with Chorus of Bridesmaids)
• 19. "Painted emblems of a race" (Sir Ruthven, Sir Roderic, and Chorus of Ancestors)
• 20. "When the night wind howls" (Sir Roderic and Chorus)
• 21. "He yields, he yields" (Chorus)
• 22. "For thirty-five years I've been sober and wary" (Robin)
• 23. "I once was a very abandoned person" (Margaret and Despard)
• 24. "My eyes are fully open" (Margaret, Sir Ruthven, and Despard)
• 25. "Melodrame"
• 26. "There grew a little flower" (Hannah with Sir Roderic)
• 27. Finale Act II: "When a man has been a naughty baronet" (Ensemble)

A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.