The Fishing Village of Rederring, in Cornwall.ĪCT II. Old Adam Goodheart ( Robin's Faithful Servant)ĪCT I.Sir Despard Murgatroyd ( Of Ruddigore - A Wicked Baronet).Richard Dauntless ( His Foster-Brother - A Man-o'-wars-man).
Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd ( Disguised as Robin Oakapple, a Young Farmer).To play these you will need to install a player such as the vanBasco Karaoke player. The Karaoke files are also available for download as a single zipped file (165K). If you would like to have them all to play at any time, you can download them in a zipped file (129K). There is also a MIDI file of the Overture arranged by Geoffrey Toye for the 1920 revival of the opera sequenced by George Pollen.
The MIDI files were sequenced by Paul Howarth from Noteworthy files prepared by Colin Johnson.
As a result there are few opportunities to see professional productions today, but we hope this Web Opera will convince you that in Ruddigore, Gilbert and Sullivan produced another fine piece of theatre. But from the earliest performances its popularity among the wider public of suffered through comparison with its wildly successful immediate predecessor, The Mikado. This satire on Victorian melodrama has a high esteem among dedicated lovers of Gilbert and Sullivan operas.