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Listen to Sullivan: The Contrabandista & The Foresters by Claire Rutter, Frances McCafferty, Donald Maxwell, Richard Suart, Geoffrey Moses, New London Orchestra, The London Chorus & Ronald Corp
ALBUMSullivan: The Contrabandista & The ForestersClaire Rutter, Frances McCafferty, Donald Maxwell, Richard Suart, Geoffrey Moses, New London Orchestra, The London Chorus & Ronald Corp

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AUSFÜHRENDE KÜNSTLER:INNEN
Catherine Hopper
Catherine Hopper
Sopran
Joanna Cohn
Joanna Cohn
Sopran
New London Orchestra
New London Orchestra
Orchester
Ronald Corp
Ronald Corp
Dirigent:in
The London Chorus
The London Chorus
Chor
KOMPOSITION UND LIEDTEXT
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Komponist:in
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Fairy: Evil fairy! do you hear?
So she said who lieth here.
Titania: We be fairies of the wood,
We be neither bad nor good.
Fairy: Back and side and hip and rib,
Nip her, nip her for her fib.
Titania: Nip her not, but let her snore.
We must flit for evermore.
Fairy: Tit, my queen, must it be so?
Wherefore, wherefore should we go?
Titania: I Titania bid you flit,
And you dare to call me ‘Tit’.
Fairy: Tit, for love and brevity,
Not for love and levity.
Titania: Tit for love, thou naughty lob,
Wouldst thou call my Oberon ‘Ob’?
Fairy: Nay, and please your Elfin Grace,
Never Ob before his face.
Titania: Fairy realm is breaking down
When the fairy slights the crown.
Fairy: No, by wisp and glow-worm, no!
Only wherefore should we go?
Titania: We must fly from Robin Hood
And his new Queen of the wood.
Fairy: True, she is a goodly thing.
Jealousy, jealousy of the King!
Chorus: Killed the sward wheree’er they sat, Queen.
Bursting bracken beaten flat, Queen.
Honest daisy deadly bruis’d, Queen.
Modest maiden lily abus’d, Queen.
Beetle’s jewel armour crack’d, Queen.
Reeds we rock’d on broken back’d, Queen.
We be scar’d with song and shout,
Arrows whistle all about.
All our games be put to rout,
All our rings be trampled out.
Lead us thou to some deep glen,
Far from solid foot of men,
Never to return again,
Never to return again,
Queen, Queen.
Titania: Elf, with spiteful heart and eye,
Talk of jealousy? You see why
We must leave the wood and fly.
Up with you, out of the forest and over the hills and away,
Chorus: Up with you, out of the forest and over the hills far away,
Titania: And over this Robin Hood’s bay!
Up thro’ the light of the seas, by the moon’s long-silvering ray!
Fairy and Chorus:
To a land where the fay,
Not an eye to survey,
In the night, in the day,
Can have frolic and play.
Titania: Lady lying here alone,
Moody creature,
Of a nature
Stronger, sadder than my own,
Were I human, were I human,
I would love you like a woman.
Titania, Fairy and Chorus:
Soon, soon you shall have your honeymoon,
He shall wed you, Marian,
He shall wed you, Marian,
For you love him, and he loves you
Both be happy, and adieu, for ever and for evermore adieu.
Fairies:Up with you, all of you, off with you, out of it,
Over the woods, over the woods and away!
Written by: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Sir Arthur Sullivan

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