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Title: Robin Hood
Artist: Ronald Corp
Label: Naxos Opera Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 730099030670
Genre: Classical, Opera/Operetta
Release Date: 2011-10-25
Number of Discs: 2

George Macfarren was considered by many of his contemporaries as the greatest British dramatic opera composer since Purcell. Described by Edward J Dent as 'very full of good fun and on the way to Sullivan', Robin Hood is Macfarren' masterpiece.

Tracks:
1.1 Overture
1.2 Act I: Introduction: Clang! Clang! It Is a Merry (Chorus)
1.3 Act I: Ballad: The Hunters Wake (Alice, Chorus)
1.4 Act I: Duet: When Lovers Are Parted (Robin, Marian)
1.5 Act I: Trio: A Dark and Troublous Time (Robin, Marian, Sheriff)
1.6 Act I: Ballad: True Love (Marian)
1.7 Act I: Scena and Song: The Monk Within His Cell (Sompnour)
1.8 Act I: Scena and Song: Be Not Severe (Allan, Robin, Chorus)
1.9 Act I: Ballad: Englishmen By Birth (Robin)
1.10 Act I: Finale: May the Saints Protect
1.11 Act II Scene 1: Entr'acte
1.12 Act II Scene 1: Part Song: The Wood, the Wood (Outlaws)
1.13 Act II Scene 1: Robbery Scene: A Good Fat Deer (Robin, Much, John, Sompnour)
1.14 Act II Scene 1: Ballad: The Grasping Normans (Robin, Greenwood Men)
1.15 Act II Scene 2: Scena: Hail Happy Morn (Marian)
1.16 Act II Scene 2: Ballad: From Childhood's Dawn (Sheriff)
1.17 Act II Scene 2: Duet: To the Fair (Marian, Alice)
1.18 Act II Scene 3: Chorus: How Bright Is the Day (Allan, Alice, Robin, Marian)
2.1 Act II Scene 3: Dances: Round Dance and Tilting at the Quintain
2.2 Act II Scece 3: Scena: Hoodman Blind (Villagers)
2.3 Act II Scene 3: Song: My Own, My Guiding Star (Robin)
2.4 Act II Scene 3: Ensemble: Merry Laughter (Sheriff, Marian, Alice, Allan, Company)
2.5 Act II Scene 3: Quintet: My Heart from It's Terror (Marian, Alice, Robin, Allan, Sheriff)
2.6 Act II Scene 3: Finale: My Children Thus Your Lives (Sheriff, Company)
2.7 Act III Scene 1: Entr'acte
2.8 Act III Scene 1: Duet: Greatest Plague on Earth (Allan, Alice)
2.9 Act III Scene 1: Scena: My Child Has Fled (Sheriff)
2.10 Act III Scene 1: Duet: To King Richard at Once (Sheriff, Sompnour)
2.11 Act III Scene 2: Part Song: Now the Sun Has Mounted (Citizens)
2.12 Act III Scene 2: Song: Sons of the Greenwood (Marian, Greenwood Men)
2.13 Act III Scene 3: Scena: Vain Was the Proud Ambition (Robin, Marian, Chorus)
2.14 Act III Scene 4: Finale: Hark, to That Doleful Bell (Full Company)
2.15 Act III Scene 4: Finale Ultimo: We've Made a Slight Mistake (Full Company)

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