OA 1004
GEMS FROM THE OHIO LIGHT OPERA – Volume 1

CD Contents

1.  Franz Lehár	Gypsy Love	6:10	Overture
2.  Jacques Offenbach	Bluebeard	2:52	We are two lovers, who
3.  Noël Coward	Bitter Sweet	4:16	What is love?
4.  Sigmund Romberg	The New Moon	4:12	One kiss
5.  Leo Fall	The Dollar Princess	4:59	Aren’t they good?
6.  Arthur Sullivan	The Mikado	3:29	Willow, tit-willow
7.  Karl Zeller	Der Vogelhändler	3:10	I am a rector and the director
8.  Oscar Straus	A Waltz Dream	4:38	Yes, sir, I will
9.  Johann Strauss	Wiener Blut	2:39	Suddenly I have the giddiest feeling
10. Arthur Sullivan	The Pirates of Penzance	3:12	I am the very model of a modern major-general
11. Franz Lehár	The Land of Smiles	5:19	Love, what has given you this magic power
12. Jacques Offenbach	La Vie Parisienne	1:54	Sir your coat is split right down the back
13. Emmerich Kálmán	The Gypsy Princess	3:57	Swallow duet
14. Reynaldo Hahn	Ciboulette	3:17	A love that dies, that passes by
15. Edward German	Merrie England	3:57	The Yeomen of  England
16. Eduard Künneke	The Cousin from Batavia	5:15	Seven years I spent out in Batavia
17. Arthur Sullivan	The Zoo	3:12	I’m a simple little child
18. Jacques Offenbach	Regrets Only	2:33	Cruising the highway on his donkey
19. Sigmund Romberg	The Desert Song	2:54	Then you will know
20. Arthur Sullivan	Ruddigore	2:48	When the night wind howls
21. Karl Zeller	Der Vogelhändler	2:42	Roses in Tyrol

Vocalists:  2—Kenneth Brundage, Mary Gresock; 3—Julie Wright; 4—Catherine Robison; 5—Joanna Mongiardo, Andrew Clarke; 6—James Stuart; 7—George Wolff, Lars Mellander; 8—Julie Wright, Charles Davidson;  9—Kelly Kaduce; 10—Ted Christopher; 11—Paul Groves, Teri Hansen; 12—Ensemble; 13—Dennis Jesse, Emily Martin; 14—Dawn Harris; 15—Boyd Mackus; 16—John Pickle, Suzanne Woods, Julie Wright, Colleen Firstenberger, Boyd Mackus, David Wannen, Traci Pickerell; 17—Sandra Piques Eddy; 18—Brian Woods, Susan Miller; 19—Dennis Jesse, Lisa Carrier; 20—George Cordes; 21—Kandie Kearley, David Holley

Lyrics:  2, 16 – Richard Traubner; 3 – Noël Coward; 4 – Oscar Hammerstein II; 5 – Phil Park; 6, 10, 20 – William S. Gilbert; 7, 21 – Harry S. Pepper; 8 – Michael Flanders, Edmund Tracey; 9, 12 – Charles Kondek; 11 – Harry Graham; 13 – Nigel Douglas; 14,18 – James Stuart; 15 – Basil Hood; 17 – B. C. Stephenson; 19 – Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II

16-page booklet enclosed                            Total playing time:  1 hr 19 min